Filter metrics#

Overview#

Introduction#

A Packet Inspector 2 filter can expose metrics that you can scrape using Prometheus. Aspen Mesh doesn’t enable the filter metrics for Envoy proxies by default, so you must enable them.

Metric endpoint configuration#

Envoy proxy metrics are available at the following endpoint.

Port

Endpoint

15090

/stats/prometheus

Metric types#

Metric types are defined by Prometheus. Learn about Prometheus metric types.

Enable the filter metrics#

  1. Add the following information to your Aspen Mesh override values file:

    meshConfig:
  defaultConfig:
    proxyStatsMatcher:
      inclusionRegexps:
        - f5_tap.*

  2. Perform a clean installation or an upgrade of Aspen Mesh.

Metrics#

envoy_f5_tap_requests_total_failure#

Description#

The number of gRPC requests sent by a filter to the analysis service that resulted in failure

Type#

Counter

envoy_f5_tap_requests_total_success#

Description#

The number of gRPC requests sent by a filter to the analysis service that were successful

Type#

Counter