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Volcengine Managed Service for Prometheus

VKE metrics

cAdvisor metrics

Provided by Google, cAdvisor is an open source tool used for monitoring and performance analysis of container resources. Tailored for containers, cAdvisor is integrated into Kubelet in Kubernetes. When Kubelet is started, cAdvisor is automatically started. A cAdvisor instance can monitor only one node. cAdvisor performs real-time monitoring and performance data collection on resources and containers on nodes, including CPU, memory, network throughput, and file system. This topic describes the common metrics of cAdvisor. To view all metrics, go to VKE monitoring metrics.

Volcengine Managed Service for Prometheus (VMP) classifies the metrics reported by VKE clusters into the following types: basic metrics, other metrics, and custom metrics. Billing methods vary based on different metric types. For more details, see Billing items.

Basic metrics

Metric name	Metric type
machine_memory_bytes	Basic metric
machine_cpu_cores	Basic metric
container_threads_max	Basic metric
container_threads	Basic metric
container_tasks_state	Basic metric
container_start_time_seconds	Basic metric
container_sockets	Basic metric
container_processes	Basic metric
container_network_transmit_packets_total	Basic metric
container_network_transmit_packets_dropped_total	Basic metric
container_network_transmit_errors_total	Basic metric
container_network_transmit_bytes_total	Basic metric
container_network_receive_packets_total	Basic metric
container_network_receive_packets_dropped_total	Basic metric
container_network_receive_errors_total	Basic metric
container_network_receive_bytes_total	Basic metric
container_memory_working_set_bytes	Basic metric
container_memory_usage_bytes	Basic metric
container_memory_swap	Basic metric
container_memory_rss	Basic metric
container_memory_max_usage_bytes	Basic metric
container_memory_failures_total	Basic metric
container_memory_failcnt	Basic metric
container_memory_cache	Basic metric
container_fs_writes_bytes_total	Basic metric
container_fs_write_seconds_total	Basic metric
container_fs_usage_bytes	Basic metric
container_fs_reads_total	Basic metric
container_fs_reads_bytes_total	Basic metric
container_fs_read_seconds_total	Basic metric
container_fs_limit_bytes	Basic metric
container_fs_io_time_weighted_seconds_total	Basic metric
container_fs_io_time_seconds_total	Basic metric
container_fs_io_current	Basic metric
container_fs_inodes_total	Basic metric
container_fs_inodes_free	Basic metric
container_cpu_usage_seconds_total	Basic metric
container_cpu_cfs_throttled_periods_total	Basic metric
container_cpu_cfs_periods_total	Basic metric
cadvisor_version_info	Basic metric
machine_scrape_error	Basic metric
machine_cpu_sockets	Basic metric
container_spec_memory_swap_limit_bytes	Basic metric
container_spec_memory_reservation_limit_bytes	Basic metric
container_spec_memory_limit_bytes	Basic metric
container_spec_cpu_quota	Basic metric
container_spec_cpu_period	Basic metric
container_file_descriptors	Basic metric
container_cpu_user_seconds_total	Basic metric
container_cpu_system_seconds_total	Basic metric
container_cpu_load_average_10s	Basic metric
container_cpu_load_average_1min	Basic metric
container_cpu_cfs_throttled_seconds_total	Basic metric
machine_cpu_physical_cores	Basic metric
container_oom_events_total	Basic metric
container_blkio_device_usage_total	Basic metric
pod_cpu_usage_seconds_total	Basic metrics
pod_memory_working_set_bytes	Basic metric
vci_pod_cpu_resource	Basic metric
vci_pod_memory_resource	Basic metric
vci_pod_gpu_resource	Basic metric

Other metrics

Metric name	metric type
machine_nvm_capacity	Other metrics
machine_nvm_avg_power_budget_watts	Other metrics
container_ulimits_soft	Other metrics
container_spec_cpu_shares	Other metrics
container_scrape_error	Other metrics
container_memory_mapped_file	Other metrics
container_last_seen	Other metrics
container_fs_writes_total	Other metrics
container_fs_writes_merged_total	Other metrics
container_fs_sector_writes_total	Other metrics
container_fs_sector_reads_total	Other metrics
container_fs_reads_merged_total	Other metrics

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For more details about other metrics, see the official documentation.

Last updated: 2026.08.06 10:43:21