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Kube DNS integration metrics

The official Datadog integration for monitoring Kube DNS. It collects 10 metrics.

Official summary

Track all your Kube DNS metrics with Datadog

Metric types

  • gauge (value at a point in time): 7
  • count (occurrences in the interval): 3

Metrics

Descriptions are the official definitions, unedited.

MetricTypeUnit
kubedns.cachemiss_countNumber of DNS requests resulting in a cache miss.gaugerequest
kubedns.cachemiss_count.countInstant number of DNS requests made resulting in a cache miss.countrequest
kubedns.error_countNumber of DNS requests resulting in an error.gaugeerror
kubedns.error_count.countInstant number of DNS requests made resulting in an error.counterror
kubedns.request_countTotal number of DNS requests made.gaugerequest
kubedns.request_count.countInstant number of DNS requests made.countrequest
kubedns.request_duration.seconds.countNumber of requests on which the kubedns.request_duration.seconds.sum metric is evaluated.gaugerequest
kubedns.request_duration.seconds.sumTime (in seconds) each request took to resolve.gaugesecond
kubedns.response_size.bytes.countNumber of responses on which the kubedns.response_size.bytes.sum metric is evaluated.gaugeresponse
kubedns.response_size.bytes.sumSize of the returns response in bytes.gaugebyte

Official documentation

Official documentation for the Kube DNS integration

Metric names and descriptions are the official Datadog integration definitions (Copyright Datadog, Inc., BSD-3-Clause), reproduced unedited. The full license terms are on the About page.

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