HAProxy Exporter: Understand if haproxy_backend_connections_total metric is a gauge or a counter

[khaled.h...@gmail.com]

Hi guys,

I use Prometheus 1.8 and I would like to understand more about haproxy metrics available in Prometheus using the HaProxy_exporter. In particular I would like to understand if the haproxy_backend_connections_total metric is a gauge or a counter: the reason is that I would like to use the increase() function in a query like this:

increase(sum(haproxy_backend_connections_total metric{...}))

I read in the documentation that the increase() function should only be used with counters, so before deploying anything I would like to be sure that this could be a good solution.

I would like to use the increase() function instead of the delta() because in my case a counter reset sometimes happen.

Thank you in advance for your time.

Have a nice day,

Khaled

[Brian Brazil]

It's a counter, and you should use rate() or increase().

Brian

 

Thank you in advance for your time.

Have a nice day,

Khaled

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[khaled.h...@gmail.com]

Thank you very much Brian! I have another question for you, if you don't mind: do you know where I can find the type for all ha_proxy metrics? It will be really useful for me.

Have a nice day,

Khaled

Il giorno giovedì 30 novembre 2017 14:30:54 UTC+1, Brian Brazil ha scritto:

On 30 November 2017 at 13:17, <khaled.h...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi guys,

I use Prometheus 1.8 and I would like to understand more about haproxy metrics available in Prometheus using the HaProxy_exporter. In particular I would like to understand if the haproxy_backend_connections_total metric is a gauge or a counter: the reason is that I would like to use the increase() function in a query like this:

increase(sum(haproxy_backend_connections_total metric{...}))

I read in the documentation that the increase() function should only be used with counters, so before deploying anything I would like to be sure that this could be a good solution.

I would like to use the increase() function instead of the delta() because in my case a counter reset sometimes happen.

It's a counter, and you should use rate() or increase().

Brian

 

Thank you in advance for your time.

Have a nice day,

Khaled

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[Brian Brazil]

On 1 December 2017 at 08:24, <khaled.h...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thank you very much Brian! I have another question for you, if you don't mind: do you know where I can find the type for all ha_proxy metrics? It will be really useful for me.

Technically you'd have to work from the HAProxy docs, but anything ending in _total is a counter.

Brian

 

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