# Source: https://docs.vespa.ai/en/reference/operations/metrics/default-metric-set.html.md

# Default Metric Set

 

This document provides reference documentation for the Default metric set, including suffixes present per metric. If the suffix column contains "N/A" then the base name of the corresponding metric is used with no suffix.

## ClusterController Metrics

| Name | Unit | Suffixes | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 

cluster-controller.down.count

 | node | last, max | Number of content nodes down |
| 

cluster-controller.maintenance.count

 | node | last, max | Number of content nodes in maintenance |
| 

cluster-controller.up.count

 | node | last, max | Number of content nodes up |
| 

cluster-controller.is-master

 | binary | last, max | 1 if this cluster controller is currently the master, or 0 if not |
| 

cluster-controller.resource\_usage.nodes\_above\_limit

 | node | last, max | The number of content nodes above resource limit, blocking feed |
| 

cluster-controller.resource\_usage.max\_memory\_utilization

 | fraction | last, max | Current memory utilisation, for content node with the highest value |
| 

cluster-controller.resource\_usage.max\_disk\_utilization

 | fraction | last, max | Current disk space utilisation, for content node with the highest value |

## Container Metrics

| Name | Unit | Suffixes | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 

http.status.1xx

 | response | rate | Number of responses with a 1xx status |
| 

http.status.2xx

 | response | rate | Number of responses with a 2xx status |
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http.status.3xx

 | response | rate | Number of responses with a 3xx status |
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http.status.4xx

 | response | rate | Number of responses with a 4xx status |
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http.status.5xx

 | response | rate | Number of responses with a 5xx status |
| 

jdisc.gc.ms

 | millisecond | average, max | Time spent in JVM garbage collection |
| 

jdisc.thread\_pool.work\_queue.capacity

 | thread | max | Capacity of the task queue |
| 

jdisc.thread\_pool.work\_queue.size

 | thread | count, max, min, sum | Size of the task queue |
| 

jdisc.thread\_pool.size

 | thread | max | Size of the thread pool |
| 

jdisc.thread\_pool.active\_threads

 | thread | count, max, min, sum | Number of threads that are active |
| 

jdisc.application.failed\_component\_graphs

 | item | rate | JDISC Application failed component graphs |
| 

jdisc.singleton.is\_active

 | item | last, max | JDISC Singleton is active |
| 

jdisc.http.ssl.handshake.failure.missing\_client\_cert

 | operation | rate | JDISC HTTP SSL Handshake failures due to missing client certificate |
| 

jdisc.http.ssl.handshake.failure.incompatible\_protocols

 | operation | rate | JDISC HTTP SSL Handshake failures due to incompatible protocols |
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jdisc.http.ssl.handshake.failure.incompatible\_chifers

 | operation | rate | JDISC HTTP SSL Handshake failures due to incompatible chifers |
| 

jdisc.http.ssl.handshake.failure.unknown

 | operation | rate | JDISC HTTP SSL Handshake failures for unknown reason |
| 

mem.heap.free

 | byte | average | Free heap memory |
| 

athenz-tenant-cert.expiry.seconds

 | second | last, max, min | Time remaining until Athenz tenant certificate expires |
| 

feed.operations

 | operation | rate | Number of document feed operations |
| 

feed.latency

 | millisecond | count, sum | Feed latency |
| 

queries

 | operation | rate | Query volume |
| 

query\_latency

 | millisecond | average, count, max, sum | The overall query latency as seen by the container |
| 

failed\_queries

 | operation | rate | The number of failed queries |
| 

degraded\_queries

 | operation | rate | The number of degraded queries, e.g. due to some content nodes not responding in time |
| 

hits\_per\_query

 | hit\_per\_query | average, count, max, sum | The number of hits returned |
| 

docproc.documents

 | document | sum | Number of processed documents |
| 

totalhits\_per\_query

 | hit\_per\_query | average, count, max, sum | The total number of documents found to match queries |
| 

serverActiveThreads

 | thread | average | Deprecated. Use jdisc.thread\_pool.active\_threads instead. |

## Distributor Metrics

| Name | Unit | Suffixes | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 

vds.distributor.docsstored

 | document | average | Number of documents stored in all buckets controlled by this distributor |
| 

vds.bouncer.clock\_skew\_aborts

 | operation | count | Number of client operations that were aborted due to clock skew between sender and receiver exceeding acceptable range |

## NodeAdmin Metrics

| Name | Unit | Suffixes | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 

endpoint.certificate.expiry.seconds

 | second | N/A | Time until node endpoint certificate expires |
| 

node-certificate.expiry.seconds

 | second | N/A | Time until node certificate expires |

## SearchNode Metrics

| Name | Unit | Suffixes | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 

content.proton.documentdb.documents.total

 | document | last, max | The total number of documents in this documents db (ready + not-ready) |
| 

content.proton.documentdb.documents.ready

 | document | last, max | The number of ready documents in this document db |
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content.proton.documentdb.documents.active

 | document | last, max | The number of active / searchable documents in this document db |
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content.proton.documentdb.disk\_usage

 | byte | last | The total disk usage (in bytes) for this document db |
| 

content.proton.documentdb.memory\_usage.allocated\_bytes

 | byte | last | The number of allocated bytes |
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content.proton.search\_protocol.query.latency

 | second | average, count, max, sum | Query request latency (seconds) |
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content.proton.search\_protocol.docsum.latency

 | second | average, count, max, sum | Docsum request latency (seconds) |
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content.proton.search\_protocol.docsum.requested\_documents

 | document | rate | Total requested document summaries |
| 

content.proton.resource\_usage.disk

 | fraction | average | The relative amount of disk used by this content node (transient usage not included, value in the range [0, 1]). Same value as reported to the cluster controller |
| 

content.proton.resource\_usage.memory

 | fraction | average | The relative amount of memory used by this content node (transient usage not included, value in the range [0, 1]). Same value as reported to the cluster controller |
| 

content.proton.resource\_usage.feeding\_blocked

 | binary | last, max | Whether feeding is blocked due to resource limits being reached (value is either 0 or 1) |
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content.proton.transactionlog.disk\_usage

 | byte | last | The disk usage (in bytes) of the transaction log |
| 

content.proton.documentdb.matching.docs\_matched

 | document | rate | Number of documents matched |
| 

content.proton.documentdb.matching.docs\_reranked

 | document | rate | Number of documents re-ranked (second phase) |
| 

content.proton.documentdb.matching.rank\_profile.query\_latency

 | second | average, count, max, sum | Total average latency (sec) when matching and ranking a query |
| 

content.proton.documentdb.matching.rank\_profile.query\_setup\_time

 | second | average, count, max, sum | Average time (sec) spent setting up and tearing down queries |
| 

content.proton.documentdb.matching.rank\_profile.rerank\_time

 | second | average, count, max, sum | Average time (sec) spent on 2nd phase ranking |

## Sentinel Metrics

| Name | Unit | Suffixes | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 

sentinel.totalRestarts

 | restart | last, max, sum | Total number of service restarts done by the sentinel since the sentinel was started |

## Storage Metrics

| Name | Unit | Suffixes | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 

vds.filestor.allthreads.put.count

 | operation | rate | Number of requests processed. |
| 

vds.filestor.allthreads.remove.count

 | operation | rate | Number of requests processed. |
| 

vds.filestor.allthreads.update.count

 | request | rate | Number of requests processed. |

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### On this page:

- [ClusterController Metrics](#clustercontroller-metrics)
- [Container Metrics](#container-metrics)
- [Distributor Metrics](#distributor-metrics)
- [NodeAdmin Metrics](#nodeadmin-metrics)
- [SearchNode Metrics](#searchnode-metrics)
- [Sentinel Metrics](#sentinel-metrics)
- [Storage Metrics](#storage-metrics)