Configure agent telemetry to collect operations metrics you can use to debug and observe Consul behavior and performance. Learn about configuration options, the metrics you can collect, and why they're important.
Metrics tutorial](https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/consul/monitor-datacenter-health?utm_source=docs) to learn how collect and interpret Consul data.
For a configuration example for Telegraf, review the [Monitoring with Telegraf tutorial](https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/consul/monitor-health-telegraf?utm_source=docs).
These are some metrics emitted that can help you understand the health of your cluster at a glance. A [Grafana dashboard](https://grafana.com/grafana/dashboards/13396) is also available, which is maintained by the Consul team and displays these metrics for easy visualization. For a full list of metrics emitted by Consul, see [Metrics Reference](#metrics-reference)
| `consul.raft.apply` | Counts the number of Raft transactions applied during the interval. This metric is only reported on the leader. | raft transactions / interval | counter |
**Why they're important:** Taken together, these metrics indicate how long it takes to complete write operations in various parts of the Consul cluster. Generally these should all be fairly consistent and no more than a few milliseconds. Sudden changes in any of the timing values could be due to unexpected load on the Consul servers, or due to problems on the servers themselves.
**What to look for:** Deviations (in any of these metrics) of more than 50% from baseline over the previous hour.
| `consul.raft.leader.lastContact` | Measures the time since the leader was last able to contact the follower nodes when checking its leader lease. | ms | timer |
**Why they're important:** Normally, your Consul cluster should have a stable leader. If there are frequent elections or leadership changes, it would likely indicate network issues between the Consul servers, or that the Consul servers themselves are unable to keep up with the load.
**What to look for:** For a healthy cluster, you're looking for a `lastContact` lower than 200ms, `leader` > 0 and `candidate` == 0. Deviations from this might indicate flapping leadership.
| `consul.autopilot.healthy` | Tracks the overall health of the local server cluster. If all servers are considered healthy by Autopilot, this will be set to 1. If any are unhealthy, this will be 0. | health state | gauge |
| `consul.runtime.total_gc_pause_ns` | Number of nanoseconds consumed by stop-the-world garbage collection (GC) pauses since Consul started. | ns | gauge |
**Why it's important:** GC pause is a "stop-the-world" event, meaning that all runtime threads are blocked until GC completes. Normally these pauses last only a few nanoseconds. But if memory usage is high, the Go runtime may GC so frequently that it starts to slow down Consul.
**What to look for:** Warning if `total_gc_pause_ns` exceeds 2 seconds/minute, critical if it exceeds 5 seconds/minute.
**NOTE:** `total_gc_pause_ns` is a cumulative counter, so in order to calculate rates (such as GC/minute),
you will need to apply a function such as InfluxDB's [`non_negative_difference()`](https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v1.5/query_language/functions/#non-negative-difference).
| `consul.client.rpc.exceeded` | Increments whenever a Consul agent in client mode makes an RPC request to a Consul server gets rate limited by that agent's [`limits`](/docs/agent/config/config-files#limits) configuration. | requests | counter |
| `consul.client.rpc.failed` | Increments whenever a Consul agent in client mode makes an RPC request to a Consul server and fails. | requests | counter |
**Why they're important:** These measurements indicate the current load created from a Consul agent, including when the load becomes high enough to be rate limited. A high RPC count, especially from `consul.client.rpcexceeded` meaning that the requests are being rate-limited, could imply a misconfigured Consul agent.
**What to look for:**
Sudden large changes to the `consul.client.rpc` metrics (greater than 50% deviation from baseline).
`consul.client.rpc.exceeded` or `consul.client.rpc.failed` count > 0, as it implies that an agent is being rate-limited or fails to make an RPC request to a Consul server
| `consul.raft.thread.main.saturation` | An approximate measurement of the proportion of time the main Raft goroutine is busy and unavailable to accept new work. | percentage | sample |
| `consul.raft.thread.fsm.saturation` | An approximate measurement of the proportion of time the Raft FSM goroutine is busy and unavailable to accept new work. | percentage | sample |
**Why they're important:** These measurements are a useful proxy for how much
capacity a Consul server has to accept additional write load. High saturation
of the Raft goroutines can lead to elevated latency in the rest of the system
and cause cluster instability.
**What to look for:** Generally, a server's steady-state saturation should be
less than 50%.
**NOTE:** These metrics are approximate and under extremely heavy load won't
give a perfect fine-grained view of how much headroom a server has available.
| `consul.raft.fsm.lastRestoreDuration` | Measures the time taken to restore the FSM from a snapshot on an agent restart or from the leader calling installSnapshot. This is a gauge that holds it's value since most servers only restore during restarts which are typically infrequent. | ms | gauge |
| `consul.raft.leader.oldestLogAge` | The number of milliseconds since the _oldest_ log in the leader's log store was written. This can be important for replication health where write rate is high and the snapshot is large as followers may be unable to recover from a restart if restoring takes longer than the minimum value for the current leader. Compare this with `consul.raft.fsm.lastRestoreDuration` and `consul.raft.rpc.installSnapshot` to monitor. In normal usage this gauge value will grow linearly over time until a snapshot completes on the leader and the log is truncated. | ms | gauge |
| `consul.raft.rpc.installSnapshot` | Measures the time taken to process the installSnapshot RPC call. This metric should only be seen on agents which are currently in the follower state. | ms | timer |
**Why they're important:** These metrics allow operators to monitor the health
and capacity of raft replication on servers. **When Consul is handling large
amounts of data and high write throughput** it is possible for the cluster to
get into the following state:
* Write throughput is high (say 500 commits per second or more) and constant
* The leader is writing out a large snapshot every minute or so
* The snapshot is large enough that it takes considerable time to restore from
disk on a restart or from the leader if a follower gets behind
* Disk IO available allows the leader to write a snapshot faster than it can be
restored from disk on a follower
Under these conditions, a follower after a restart may be unable to catch up on
replication and become a voter again since it takes longer to restore from disk
or the leader than the leader takes to write a new snapshot and truncate its
| `consul.raft.boltdb.freelistBytes` | Represents the number of bytes necessary to encode the freelist metadata. When [`raft_boltdb.NoFreelistSync`](/docs/agent/config/config-files#NoFreelistSync) is set to `false` these metadata bytes must also be written to disk for each committed log. | bytes | gauge |
| `consul.raft.boltdb.logsPerBatch` | Measures the number of logs being written per batch to the db. | logs | sample |
| `consul.raft.boltdb.storeLogs` | Measures the amount of time spent writing logs to the db. | ms | timer |
| `consul.raft.boltdb.writeCapacity` | Theoretical write capacity in terms of the number of logs that can be written per second. Each sample outputs what the capacity would be if future batched log write operations were similar to this one. This similarity encompasses 4 things: batch size, byte size, disk performance and boltdb performance. While none of these will be static and its highly likely individual samples of this metric will vary, aggregating this metric over a larger time window should provide a decent picture into how this BoltDB store can perform | logs/second | sample |
| `consul.acl.blocked.{check,service}.deregistration` | Increments whenever a deregistration fails for an entity (check or service) is blocked by an ACL. | requests | counter |
| `consul.acl.blocked.{check,node,service}.registration` | Increments whenever a registration fails for an entity (check, node or service) is blocked by an ACL. | requests | counter |
| `consul.api.http` | This samples how long it takes to service the given HTTP request for the given verb and path. Includes labels for `path` and `method`. `path` does not include details like service or key names, for these an underscore will be present as a placeholder (eg. path=`v1.kv._`) | ms | timer |
| `consul.client.rpc` | Increments whenever a Consul agent in client mode makes an RPC request to a Consul server. This gives a measure of how much a given agent is loading the Consul servers. Currently, this is only generated by agents in client mode, not Consul servers. | requests | counter |
| `consul.client.rpc.exceeded` | Increments whenever a Consul agent in client mode makes an RPC request to a Consul server gets rate limited by that agent's [`limits`](/docs/agent/config/config-files#limits) configuration. This gives an indication that there's an abusive application making too many requests on the agent, or that the rate limit needs to be increased. Currently, this only applies to agents in client mode, not Consul servers. | rejected requests | counter |
| `consul.client.rpc.failed` | Increments whenever a Consul agent in client mode makes an RPC request to a Consul server and fails. | requests | counter |
| `consul.client.api.catalog_register.` | Increments whenever a Consul agent receives a catalog register request. | requests | counter |
| `consul.client.api.success.catalog_register.` | Increments whenever a Consul agent successfully responds to a catalog register request. | requests | counter |
| `consul.client.rpc.error.catalog_register.` | Increments whenever a Consul agent receives an RPC error for a catalog register request. | errors | counter |
| `consul.client.api.catalog_deregister.` | Increments whenever a Consul agent receives a catalog deregister request. | requests | counter |
| `consul.client.api.success.catalog_deregister.` | Increments whenever a Consul agent successfully responds to a catalog deregister request. | requests | counter |
| `consul.client.rpc.error.catalog_deregister.` | Increments whenever a Consul agent receives an RPC error for a catalog deregister request. | errors | counter |
| `consul.client.api.catalog_datacenters.` | Increments whenever a Consul agent receives a request to list datacenters in the catalog. | requests | counter |
| `consul.client.api.success.catalog_datacenters.` | Increments whenever a Consul agent successfully responds to a request to list datacenters. | requests | counter |
| `consul.client.rpc.error.catalog_datacenters.` | Increments whenever a Consul agent receives an RPC error for a request to list datacenters. | errors | counter |
| `consul.client.api.catalog_nodes.` | Increments whenever a Consul agent receives a request to list nodes from the catalog. | requests | counter |
| `consul.client.api.success.catalog_nodes.` | Increments whenever a Consul agent successfully responds to a request to list nodes. | requests | counter |
| `consul.client.rpc.error.catalog_nodes.` | Increments whenever a Consul agent receives an RPC error for a request to list nodes. | errors | counter |
| `consul.client.api.catalog_services.` | Increments whenever a Consul agent receives a request to list services from the catalog. | requests | counter |
| `consul.client.api.success.catalog_services.` | Increments whenever a Consul agent successfully responds to a request to list services. | requests | counter |
| `consul.client.rpc.error.catalog_services.` | Increments whenever a Consul agent receives an RPC error for a request to list services. | errors | counter |
| `consul.client.api.catalog_service_nodes.` | Increments whenever a Consul agent receives a request to list nodes offering a service. | requests | counter |
| `consul.client.api.success.catalog_service_nodes.` | Increments whenever a Consul agent successfully responds to a request to list nodes offering a service. | requests | counter |
| `consul.client.api.error.catalog_service_nodes.` | Increments whenever a Consul agent receives an RPC error for request to list nodes offering a service. | requests | counter |
| `consul.client.rpc.error.catalog_service_nodes.` | Increments whenever a Consul agent receives an RPC error for a request to list nodes offering a service. | errors | counter |
| `consul.client.api.catalog_node_services.` | Increments whenever a Consul agent receives a request to list services registered in a node. | requests | counter |
| `consul.client.api.success.catalog_node_services.` | Increments whenever a Consul agent successfully responds to a request to list services in a node. | requests | counter |
| `consul.client.rpc.error.catalog_node_services.` | Increments whenever a Consul agent receives an RPC error for a request to list services in a node. | errors | counter |
| `consul.client.api.catalog_node_service_list` | Increments whenever a Consul agent receives a request to list a node's registered services. | requests | counter |
| `consul.client.rpc.error.catalog_node_service_list` | Increments whenever a Consul agent receives an RPC error for request to list a node's registered services. | errors | counter |
| `consul.client.api.success.catalog_node_service_list` | Increments whenever a Consul agent successfully responds to a request to list a node's registered services. | requests | counter |
| `consul.client.api.catalog_gateway_services.` | Increments whenever a Consul agent receives a request to list services associated with a gateway. | requests | counter |
| `consul.client.api.success.catalog_gateway_services.` | Increments whenever a Consul agent successfully responds to a request to list services associated with a gateway. | requests | counter |
| `consul.client.rpc.error.catalog_gateway_services.` | Increments whenever a Consul agent receives an RPC error for a request to list services associated with a gateway. | errors | counter |
| `consul.runtime.num_goroutines` | Tracks the number of running goroutines and is a general load pressure indicator. This may burst from time to time but should return to a steady state value. | number of goroutines | gauge |
| `consul.runtime.alloc_bytes` | Measures the number of bytes allocated by the Consul process. This may burst from time to time but should return to a steady state value. | bytes | gauge |
| `consul.runtime.heap_objects` | Measures the number of objects allocated on the heap and is a general memory pressure indicator. This may burst from time to time but should return to a steady state value. | number of objects | gauge |
| `consul.state.nodes` | Measures the current number of nodes registered with Consul. It is only emitted by Consul servers. Added in v1.9.0. | number of objects | gauge |
| `consul.state.peerings` | Measures the current number of peerings registered with Consul. It is only emitted by Consul servers. Added in v1.13.0. | number of objects | gauge |
| `consul.state.services` | Measures the current number of unique services registered with Consul, based on service name. It is only emitted by Consul servers. Added in v1.9.0. | number of objects | gauge |
| `consul.state.service_instances` | Measures the current number of unique service instances registered with Consul. It is only emitted by Consul servers. Added in v1.9.0. | number of objects | gauge |
| `consul.state.kv_entries` | Measures the current number of entries in the Consul KV store. It is only emitted by Consul servers. Added in v1.10.3. | number of objects | gauge |
| `consul.state.connect_instances` | Measures the current number of unique connect service instances registered with Consul labeled by Kind (e.g. connect-proxy, connect-native, etc). Added in v1.10.4 | number of objects | gauge |
| `consul.state.config_entries` | Measures the current number of configuration entries registered with Consul labeled by Kind (e.g. service-defaults, proxy-defaults, etc). See [Configuration Entries](/docs/connect/config-entries) for more information. Added in v1.10.4 | number of objects | gauge |
| `consul.members.clients` | Measures the current number of client agents registered with Consul. It is only emitted by Consul servers. Added in v1.9.6. | number of clients | gauge |
| `consul.members.servers` | Measures the current number of server agents registered with Consul. It is only emitted by Consul servers. Added in v1.9.6. | number of servers | gauge |
| `consul.dns.stale_queries` | Increments when an agent serves a query within the allowed stale threshold. | queries | counter |
| `consul.dns.ptr_query.` | Measures the time spent handling a reverse DNS query for the given node. | ms | timer |
| `consul.dns.domain_query.` | Measures the time spent handling a domain query for the given node. | ms | timer |
| `consul.system.licenseExpiration` | <EnterpriseAlert inline /> This measures the number of hours remaining on the agents license. | hours | gauge |
| `consul.version` | Represents the Consul version. | agents | gauge |
| `consul.acl.ResolveToken` | Measures the time it takes to resolve an ACL token. | ms | timer |
| `consul.acl.ResolveTokenToIdentity` | Measures the time it takes to resolve an ACL token to an Identity. This metric was removed in Consul 1.12. The time will now be reflected in `consul.acl.ResolveToken`. | ms | timer |
| `consul.acl.token.cache_hit` | Increments if Consul is able to resolve a token's identity, or a legacy token, from the cache. | cache read op | counter |
| `consul.acl.token.cache_miss` | Increments if Consul cannot resolve a token's identity, or a legacy token, from the cache. | cache read op | counter |
| `consul.cache.bypass` | Counts how many times a request bypassed the cache because no cache-key was provided. | counter | counter |
| `consul.cache.fetch_success` | Counts the number of successful fetches by the cache. | counter | counter |
| `consul.cache.fetch_error` | Counts the number of failed fetches by the cache. | counter | counter |
| `consul.cache.evict_expired` | Counts the number of expired entries that are evicted. | counter | counter |
| `consul.raft.applied_index` | Represents the raft applied index. | index | gauge |
| `consul.raft.apply` | Counts the number of Raft transactions occurring over the interval, which is a general indicator of the write load on the Consul servers. | raft transactions / interval | counter |
| `consul.raft.barrier` | Counts the number of times the agent has started the barrier i.e the number of times it has issued a blocking call, to ensure that the agent has all the pending operations that were queued, to be applied to the agent's FSM. | blocks / interval | counter |
| `consul.raft.boltdb.freelistBytes` | Represents the number of bytes necessary to encode the freelist metadata. When [`raft_boltdb.NoFreelistSync`](/docs/agent/config/config-files#NoFreelistSync) is set to `false` these metadata bytes must also be written to disk for each committed log. | bytes | gauge |
| `consul.raft.boltdb.freePageBytes` | Represents the number of bytes of free space within the raft.db file. | bytes | gauge |
| `consul.raft.boltdb.getLog` | Measures the amount of time spent reading logs from the db. | ms | timer |
| `consul.raft.boltdb.logBatchSize` | Measures the total size in bytes of logs being written to the db in a single batch. | bytes | sample |
| `consul.raft.boltdb.logsPerBatch` | Measures the number of logs being written per batch to the db. | logs | sample |
| `consul.raft.boltdb.logSize` | Measures the size of logs being written to the db. | bytes | sample |
| `consul.raft.boltdb.numFreePages` | Represents the number of free pages within the raft.db file. | pages | gauge |
| `consul.raft.boltdb.numPendingPages` | Represents the number of pending pages within the raft.db that will soon become free. | pages | gauge |
| `consul.raft.boltdb.openReadTxn` | Represents the number of open read transactions against the db | transactions | gauge |
| `consul.raft.boltdb.totalReadTxn` | Represents the total number of started read transactions against the db | transactions | gauge |
| `consul.raft.boltdb.storeLogs` | Measures the amount of time spent writing logs to the db. | ms | timer |
| `consul.raft.boltdb.txstats.cursorCount` | Counts the number of cursors created since Consul was started. | cursors | counter |
| `consul.raft.boltdb.txstats.nodeCount` | Counts the number of node allocations within the db since Consul was started. | allocations | counter |
| `consul.raft.boltdb.txstats.nodeDeref` | Counts the number of node dereferences in the db since Consul was started. | dereferences | counter |
| `consul.raft.boltdb.txstats.pageAlloc` | Represents the number of bytes allocated within the db since Consul was started. Note that this does not take into account space having been freed and reused. In that case, the value of this metric will still increase. | bytes | gauge |
| `consul.raft.boltdb.txstats.pageCount` | Represents the number of pages allocated since Consul was started. Note that this does not take into account space having been freed and reused. In that case, the value of this metric will still increase. | pages | gauge |
| `consul.raft.boltdb.txstats.rebalance` | Counts the number of node rebalances performed in the db since Consul was started. | rebalances | counter |
| `consul.raft.boltdb.txstats.rebalanceTime` | Measures the time spent rebalancing nodes in the db. | ms | timer |
| `consul.raft.boltdb.txstats.spill` | Counts the number of nodes spilled in the db since Consul was started. | spills | counter |
| `consul.raft.boltdb.txstats.spillTime` | Measures the time spent spilling nodes in the db. | ms | timer |
| `consul.raft.boltdb.txstats.split` | Counts the number of nodes split in the db since Consul was started. | splits | counter |
| `consul.raft.boltdb.txstats.write` | Counts the number of writes to the db since Consul was started. | writes | counter |
| `consul.raft.boltdb.txstats.writeTime` | Measures the amount of time spent performing writes to the db. | ms | timer |
| `consul.raft.boltdb.writeCapacity` | Theoretical write capacity in terms of the number of logs that can be written per second. Each sample outputs what the capacity would be if future batched log write operations were similar to this one. This similarity encompasses 4 things: batch size, byte size, disk performance and boltdb performance. While none of these will be static and its highly likely individual samples of this metric will vary, aggregating this metric over a larger time window should provide a decent picture into how this BoltDB store can perform | logs/second | sample |
| `consul.raft.commitNumLogs` | Measures the count of logs processed for application to the FSM in a single batch. | logs | gauge |
| `consul.raft.commitTime` | Measures the time it takes to commit a new entry to the Raft log on the leader. | ms | timer |
| `consul.raft.fsm.lastRestoreDuration` | Measures the time taken to restore the FSM from a snapshot on an agent restart or from the leader calling installSnapshot. This is a gauge that holds it's value since most servers only restore during restarts which are typically infrequent. | ms | gauge |
| `consul.raft.fsm.snapshot` | Measures the time taken by the FSM to record the current state for the snapshot. | ms | timer |
| `consul.raft.fsm.apply` | Measures the time to apply a log to the FSM. | ms | timer |
| `consul.raft.fsm.enqueue` | Measures the amount of time to enqueue a batch of logs for the FSM to apply. | ms | timer |
| `consul.raft.fsm.restore` | Measures the time taken by the FSM to restore its state from a snapshot. | ms | timer |
| `consul.raft.last_index` | Represents the raft applied index. | index | gauge |
| `consul.raft.leader.dispatchLog` | Measures the time it takes for the leader to write log entries to disk. | ms | timer |
| `consul.raft.leader.dispatchNumLogs` | Measures the number of logs committed to disk in a batch. | logs | gauge |
| `consul.raft.leader.lastContact` | Measures the time since the leader was last able to contact the follower nodes when checking its leader lease. It can be used as a measure for how stable the Raft timing is and how close the leader is to timing out its lease.The lease timeout is 500 ms times the [`raft_multiplier` configuration](/docs/agent/config/config-files#raft_multiplier), so this telemetry value should not be getting close to that configured value, otherwise the Raft timing is marginal and might need to be tuned, or more powerful servers might be needed. See the [Server Performance](/docs/install/performance) guide for more details. | ms | timer |
| `consul.raft.leader.oldestLogAge` | The number of milliseconds since the _oldest_ log in the leader's log store was written. This can be important for replication health where write rate is high and the snapshot is large as followers may be unable to recover from a restart if restoring takes longer than the minimum value for the current leader. Compare this with `consul.raft.fsm.lastRestoreDuration` and `consul.raft.rpc.installSnapshot` to monitor. In normal usage this gauge value will grow linearly over time until a snapshot completes on the leader and the log is truncated. Note: this metric won't be emitted until the leader writes a snapshot. After an upgrade to Consul 1.10.0 it won't be emitted until the oldest log was written after the upgrade. | ms | gauge |
| `consul.raft.replication.heartbeat` | Measures the time taken to invoke appendEntries on a peer, so that it doesn't timeout on a periodic basis. | ms | timer |
| `consul.raft.replication.appendEntries` | Measures the time it takes to replicate log entries to followers. This is a general indicator of the load pressure on the Consul servers, as well as the performance of the communication between the servers. | ms | timer |
| `consul.raft.replication.appendEntries.rpc` | Measures the time taken by the append entries RFC, to replicate the log entries of a leader agent onto its follower agent(s) | ms | timer |
| `consul.raft.replication.appendEntries.logs` | Measures the number of logs replicated to an agent, to bring it up to speed with the leader's logs. | logs appended/ interval | counter |
| `consul.raft.restore` | Counts the number of times the restore operation has been performed by the agent. Here, restore refers to the action of raft consuming an external snapshot to restore its state. | operation invoked / interval | counter |
| `consul.raft.restoreUserSnapshot` | Measures the time taken by the agent to restore the FSM state from a user's snapshot | ms | timer |
| `consul.raft.rpc.appendEntries` | Measures the time taken to process an append entries RPC call from an agent. | ms | timer |
| `consul.raft.rpc.appendEntries.storeLogs` | Measures the time taken to add any outstanding logs for an agent, since the last appendEntries was invoked | ms | timer |
| `consul.raft.rpc.appendEntries.processLogs` | Measures the time taken to process the outstanding log entries of an agent. | ms | timer |
| `consul.raft.rpc.installSnapshot` | Measures the time taken to process the installSnapshot RPC call. This metric should only be seen on agents which are currently in the follower state. | ms | timer |
| `consul.raft.rpc.processHeartBeat` | Measures the time taken to process a heartbeat request. | ms | timer |
| `consul.raft.rpc.requestVote` | Measures the time taken to process the request vote RPC call. | ms | timer |
| `consul.raft.snapshot.create` | Measures the time taken to initialize the snapshot process. | ms | timer |
| `consul.raft.snapshot.persist` | Measures the time taken to dump the current snapshot taken by the Consul agent to the disk. | ms | timer |
| `consul.raft.snapshot.takeSnapshot` | Measures the total time involved in taking the current snapshot (creating one and persisting it) by the Consul agent. | ms | timer |
| `consul.serf.snapshot.appendLine` | Measures the time taken by the Consul agent to append an entry into the existing log. | ms | timer |
| `consul.serf.snapshot.compact` | Measures the time taken by the Consul agent to compact a log. This operation occurs only when the snapshot becomes large enough to justify the compaction . | ms | timer |
| `consul.raft.state.candidate` | Increments whenever a Consul server starts an election. If this increments without a leadership change occurring it could indicate that a single server is overloaded or is experiencing network connectivity issues. | election attempts / interval | counter |
| `consul.raft.state.leader` | Increments whenever a Consul server becomes a leader. If there are frequent leadership changes this may be indication that the servers are overloaded and aren't meeting the soft real-time requirements for Raft, or that there are networking problems between the servers. | leadership transitions / interval | counter |
| `consul.raft.state.follower` | Counts the number of times an agent has entered the follower mode. This happens when a new agent joins the cluster or after the end of a leader election. | follower state entered / interval | counter |
| `consul.raft.transition.heartbeat_timeout` | The number of times an agent has transitioned to the Candidate state, after receive no heartbeat messages from the last known leader. | timeouts / interval | counter |
| `consul.raft.verify_leader` | This metric doesn't have a direct correlation to the leader change. It just counts the number of times an agent checks if it is still the leader or not. For example, during every consistent read, the check is done. Depending on the load in the system, this metric count can be high as it is incremented each time a consistent read is completed. | checks / interval | Counter |
| `consul.rpc.accept_conn` | Increments when a server accepts an RPC connection. | connections | counter |
| `consul.rpc.rate_limit.log_dropped` | Increments whenever a log that is emitted because an RPC exceeded a rate limit gets dropped because the output buffer is full. | log messages dropped | counter |
| `consul.catalog.register` | Measures the time it takes to complete a catalog register operation. | ms | timer |
| `consul.catalog.deregister` | Measures the time it takes to complete a catalog deregister operation. | ms | timer |
| `consul.server.isLeader` | Track if a server is a leader(1) or not(0) | 1 or 0 | gauge |
| `consul.fsm.register` | Measures the time it takes to apply a catalog register operation to the FSM. | ms | timer |
| `consul.fsm.deregister` | Measures the time it takes to apply a catalog deregister operation to the FSM. | ms | timer |
| `consul.fsm.session` | Measures the time it takes to apply the given session operation to the FSM. | ms | timer |
| `consul.fsm.kvs` | Measures the time it takes to apply the given KV operation to the FSM. | ms | timer |
| `consul.fsm.tombstone` | Measures the time it takes to apply the given tombstone operation to the FSM. | ms | timer |
| `consul.fsm.coordinate.batch-update` | Measures the time it takes to apply the given batch coordinate update to the FSM. | ms | timer |
| `consul.fsm.prepared-query` | Measures the time it takes to apply the given prepared query update operation to the FSM. | ms | timer |
| `consul.fsm.txn` | Measures the time it takes to apply the given transaction update to the FSM. | ms | timer |
| `consul.fsm.autopilot` | Measures the time it takes to apply the given autopilot update to the FSM. | ms | timer |
| `consul.fsm.persist` | Measures the time it takes to persist the FSM to a raft snapshot. | ms | timer |
| `consul.fsm.intention` | Measures the time it takes to apply an intention operation to the state store. | ms | timer |
| `consul.fsm.ca` | Measures the time it takes to apply CA configuration operations to the FSM. | ms | timer |
| `consul.fsm.ca.leaf` | Measures the time it takes to apply an operation while signing a leaf certificate. | ms | timer |
| `consul.fsm.acl.token` | Measures the time it takes to apply an ACL token operation to the FSM. | ms | timer |
| `consul.fsm.acl.policy` | Measures the time it takes to apply an ACL policy operation to the FSM. | ms | timer |
| `consul.fsm.acl.bindingrule` | Measures the time it takes to apply an ACL binding rule operation to the FSM. | ms | timer |
| `consul.fsm.acl.authmethod` | Measures the time it takes to apply an ACL authmethod operation to the FSM. | ms | timer |
| `consul.fsm.system_metadata` | Measures the time it takes to apply a system metadata operation to the FSM. | ms | timer |
| `consul.kvs.apply` | Measures the time it takes to complete an update to the KV store. | ms | timer |
| `consul.leader.barrier` | Measures the time spent waiting for the raft barrier upon gaining leadership. | ms | timer |
| `consul.leader.reconcile` | Measures the time spent updating the raft store from the serf member information. | ms | timer |
| `consul.leader.reconcileMember` | Measures the time spent updating the raft store for a single serf member's information. | ms | timer |
| `consul.leader.reapTombstones` | Measures the time spent clearing tombstones. | ms | timer |
| `consul.leader.replication.acl-policies.status` | This will only be emitted by the leader in a secondary datacenter. The value will be a 1 if the last round of ACL policy replication was successful or 0 if there was an error. | healthy | gauge |
| `consul.leader.replication.acl-policies.index` | This will only be emitted by the leader in a secondary datacenter. Increments to the index of ACL policies in the primary datacenter that have been successfully replicated. | index | gauge |
| `consul.leader.replication.acl-roles.status` | This will only be emitted by the leader in a secondary datacenter. The value will be a 1 if the last round of ACL role replication was successful or 0 if there was an error. | healthy | gauge |
| `consul.leader.replication.acl-roles.index` | This will only be emitted by the leader in a secondary datacenter. Increments to the index of ACL roles in the primary datacenter that have been successfully replicated. | index | gauge |
| `consul.leader.replication.acl-tokens.status` | This will only be emitted by the leader in a secondary datacenter. The value will be a 1 if the last round of ACL token replication was successful or 0 if there was an error. | healthy | gauge |
| `consul.leader.replication.acl-tokens.index` | This will only be emitted by the leader in a secondary datacenter. Increments to the index of ACL tokens in the primary datacenter that have been successfully replicated. | index | gauge |
| `consul.leader.replication.config-entries.status` | This will only be emitted by the leader in a secondary datacenter. The value will be a 1 if the last round of config entry replication was successful or 0 if there was an error. | healthy | gauge |
| `consul.leader.replication.config-entries.index` | This will only be emitted by the leader in a secondary datacenter. Increments to the index of config entries in the primary datacenter that have been successfully replicated. | index | gauge |
| `consul.leader.replication.federation-state.status` | This will only be emitted by the leader in a secondary datacenter. The value will be a 1 if the last round of federation state replication was successful or 0 if there was an error. | healthy | gauge |
| `consul.leader.replication.federation-state.index` | This will only be emitted by the leader in a secondary datacenter. Increments to the index of federation states in the primary datacenter that have been successfully replicated. | index | gauge |
| `consul.leader.replication.namespaces.status` | <EnterpriseAlert inline /> This will only be emitted by the leader in a secondary datacenter. The value will be a 1 if the last round of namespace replication was successful or 0 if there was an error. | healthy | gauge |
| `consul.leader.replication.namespaces.index` | <EnterpriseAlert inline /> This will only be emitted by the leader in a secondary datacenter. Increments to the index of namespaces in the primary datacenter that have been successfully replicated. | index | gauge |
| `consul.prepared-query.apply` | Measures the time it takes to apply a prepared query update. | ms | timer |
| `consul.prepared-query.explain` | Measures the time it takes to process a prepared query explain request. | ms | timer |
| `consul.prepared-query.execute` | Measures the time it takes to process a prepared query execute request. | ms | timer |
| `consul.prepared-query.execute_remote` | Measures the time it takes to process a prepared query execute request that was forwarded to another datacenter. | ms | timer |
| `consul.rpc.raft_handoff` | Increments when a server accepts a Raft-related RPC connection. | connections | counter |
| `consul.rpc.request_error` | Increments when a server returns an error from an RPC request. | errors | counter |
| `consul.rpc.request` | Increments when a server receives a Consul-related RPC request. | requests | counter |
| `consul.rpc.query` | Increments when a server receives a read RPC request, indicating the rate of new read queries. See consul.rpc.queries_blocking for the current number of in-flight blocking RPC calls. This metric changed in 1.7.0 to only increment on the the start of a query. The rate of queries will appear lower, but is more accurate. | queries | counter |
| `consul.rpc.queries_blocking` | The current number of in-flight blocking queries the server is handling. | queries | gauge |
| `consul.rpc.cross-dc` | Increments when a server sends a (potentially blocking) cross datacenter RPC query. | queries | counter |
| `consul.rpc.consistentRead` | Measures the time spent confirming that a consistent read can be performed. | ms | timer |
| `consul.session.apply` | Measures the time spent applying a session update. | ms | timer |
| `consul.session.renew` | Measures the time spent renewing a session. | ms | timer |
| `consul.session_ttl.invalidate` | Measures the time spent invalidating an expired session. | ms | timer |
| `consul.txn.apply` | Measures the time spent applying a transaction operation. | ms | timer |
| `consul.txn.read` | Measures the time spent returning a read transaction. | ms | timer |
| `consul.grpc.client.request.count` | Counts the number of gRPC requests made by the client agent to a Consul server. Includes a `server_type` label indicating either the `internal` or `external` gRPC server. | requests | counter |
| `consul.grpc.client.connection.count` | Counts the number of new gRPC connections opened by the client agent to a Consul server. Includes a `server_type` label indicating either the `internal` or `external` gRPC server. | connections | counter |
| `consul.grpc.client.connections` | Measures the number of active gRPC connections open from the client agent to any Consul servers. Includes a `server_type` label indicating either the `internal` or `external` gRPC server. | connections | gauge |
| `consul.grpc.server.request.count` | Counts the number of gRPC requests received by the server. Includes a `server_type` label indicating either the `internal` or `external` gRPC server. | requests | counter |
| `consul.grpc.server.connection.count` | Counts the number of new gRPC connections received by the server. Includes a `server_type` label indicating either the `internal` or `external` gRPC server. | connections | counter |
| `consul.grpc.server.connections` | Measures the number of active gRPC connections open on the server. Includes a `server_type` label indicating either the `internal` or `external` gRPC server. | connections | gauge |
| `consul.grpc.server.stream.count` | Counts the number of new gRPC streams received by the server. Includes a `server_type` label indicating either the `internal` or `external` gRPC server. | streams | counter |
| `consul.grpc.server.streams` | Measures the number of active gRPC streams handled by the server. Includes a `server_type` label indicating either the `internal` or `external` gRPC server. | streams | gauge |
| `consul.xds.server.streamsUnauthenticated` | Measures the number of active xDS streams handled by the server that are unauthenticated because ACLs are not enabled or ACL tokens were missing. | streams | gauge |
| `consul.xds.server.idealStreamsMax` | The maximum number of xDS streams per server, chosen to achieve a roughly even spread of load across servers. | streams | gauge |
| `consul.xds.server.streamDrained` | Counts the number of xDS streams that are drained when rebalancing the load between servers. | streams | counter |
Label based RPC metrics were added in Consul 1.12.0 as a Beta feature to better understand the workload on a Consul server and, where that workload is coming from. The following metric(s) provide that insight
The `internal` value for the `rpc_type` in the table above refers to leader and cluster management RPC operations that Consul performs.
Historically, `internal` RPC operation metrics were accounted under the same metric names.
The `unreported` value for the `request_type` in the table above refers to RPC requests within Consul where it is difficult to ascertain whether a request is `read` or `write` type.
The `unreported` value for the `leader` label in the table above refers to RPC requests where Consul cannot determine the leadership status for a server.
#### Read Request Labels
In addition to the labels above, for read requests, the following may be populated:
| `blocking` | Whether the read request passed in a `MinQueryIndex`. | `true` if a MinQueryIndex was passed, `false` otherwise. |
| `target_datacenter` | The target datacenter for the read request. | The string value of the target datacenter for the request. |
| `locality` | Gives an indication of whether the RPC request is local or has been forwarded. | `local` if current server data center is the same as `target_datacenter`, otherwise `forwarded`. |
| `consul.memberlist.degraded.probe` | Counts the number of times the agent has performed failure detection on another agent at a slower probe rate. The agent uses its own health metric as an indicator to perform this action. (If its health score is low, means that the node is healthy, and vice versa.) | probes / interval | counter |
| `consul.memberlist.degraded.timeout` | Counts the number of times an agent was marked as a dead node, whilst not getting enough confirmations from a randomly selected list of agent nodes in an agent's membership. | occurrence / interval | counter |
| `consul.memberlist.msg.dead` | Counts the number of times an agent has marked another agent to be a dead node. | messages / interval | counter |
| `consul.memberlist.health.score` | Describes a node's perception of its own health based on how well it is meeting the soft real-time requirements of the protocol. This metric ranges from 0 to 8, where 0 indicates "totally healthy". This health score is used to scale the time between outgoing probes, and higher scores translate into longer probing intervals. For more details see section IV of the Lifeguard paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1707.00788.pdf | score | gauge |
| `consul.memberlist.msg.suspect` | Increments when an agent suspects another as failed when executing random probes as part of the gossip protocol. These can be an indicator of overloaded agents, network problems, or configuration errors where agents can not connect to each other on the [required ports](/docs/agent/config/config-files#ports). | suspect messages received / interval | counter |
| `consul.memberlist.tcp.accept` | Counts the number of times an agent has accepted an incoming TCP stream connection. | connections accepted / interval | counter |
| `consul.memberlist.udp.sent/received` | Measures the total number of bytes sent/received by an agent through the UDP protocol. | bytes sent or bytes received / interval | counter |
| `consul.memberlist.tcp.connect` | Counts the number of times an agent has initiated a push/pull sync with an other agent. | push/pull initiated / interval | counter |
| `consul.memberlist.tcp.sent` | Measures the total number of bytes sent by an agent through the TCP protocol | bytes sent / interval | counter |
| `consul.memberlist.gossip` | Measures the time taken for gossip messages to be broadcasted to a set of randomly selected nodes. | ms | timer |
| `consul.memberlist.msg_alive` | Counts the number of alive messages, that the agent has processed so far, based on the message information given by the network layer. | messages / Interval | counter |
| `consul.memberlist.msg_dead` | The number of dead messages that the agent has processed so far, based on the message information given by the network layer. | messages / Interval | counter |
| `consul.memberlist.msg_suspect` | The number of suspect messages that the agent has processed so far, based on the message information given by the network layer. | messages / Interval | counter |
| `consul.memberlist.probeNode` | Measures the time taken to perform a single round of failure detection on a select agent. | nodes / Interval | counter |
| `consul.memberlist.pushPullNode` | Measures the number of agents that have exchanged state with this agent. | nodes / Interval | counter |
| `consul.serf.member.failed` | Increments when an agent is marked dead. This can be an indicator of overloaded agents, network problems, or configuration errors where agents cannot connect to each other on the [required ports](/docs/agent/config/config-files#ports). | failures / interval | counter |
| `consul.serf.member.flap` | Available in Consul 0.7 and later, this increments when an agent is marked dead and then recovers within a short time period. This can be an indicator of overloaded agents, network problems, or configuration errors where agents cannot connect to each other on the [required ports](/docs/agent/config/config-files#ports). | flaps / interval | counter |
| `consul.serf.member.join` | Increments when an agent joins the cluster. If an agent flapped or failed this counter also increments when it re-joins. | joins / interval | counter |
| `consul.serf.member.left` | Increments when an agent leaves the cluster. | leaves / interval | counter |
| `consul.serf.events` | Increments when an agent processes an [event](/commands/event). Consul uses events internally so there may be additional events showing in telemetry. There are also a per-event counters emitted as `consul.serf.events.`. | events / interval | counter |
| `consul.serf.events.<type>` | Breakdown of `consul.serf.events` by type of event. | events / interval | counter |
| `consul.serf.msgs.sent` | This metric is sample of the number of bytes of messages broadcast to the cluster. In a given time interval, the sum of this metric is the total number of bytes sent and the count is the number of messages sent. | message bytes / interval | counter |
| `consul.autopilot.failure_tolerance` | Tracks the number of voting servers that the cluster can lose while continuing to function. | servers | gauge |
| `consul.autopilot.healthy` | Tracks the overall health of the local server cluster. If all servers are considered healthy by Autopilot, this will be set to 1. If any are unhealthy, this will be 0. | boolean | gauge |
| `consul.session_ttl.active` | Tracks the active number of sessions being tracked. | sessions | gauge |
| `consul.catalog.service.query` | Increments for each catalog query for the given service. | queries | counter |
| `consul.catalog.service.query-tag` | Increments for each catalog query for the given service with the given tag. | queries | counter |
| `consul.catalog.service.query-tags` | Increments for each catalog query for the given service with the given tags. | queries | counter |
| `consul.catalog.service.not-found` | Increments for each catalog query where the given service could not be found. | queries | counter |
| `consul.catalog.connect.query` | Increments for each connect-based catalog query for the given service. | queries | counter |
| `consul.catalog.connect.query-tag` | Increments for each connect-based catalog query for the given service with the given tag. | queries | counter |
| `consul.catalog.connect.query-tags` | Increments for each connect-based catalog query for the given service with the given tags. | queries | counter |
| `consul.catalog.connect.not-found` | Increments for each connect-based catalog query where the given service could not be found. | queries | counter |
| `consul.mesh.active-root-ca.expiry` | The number of seconds until the root CA expires, updated every hour. | seconds | gauge |
| `consul.mesh.active-signing-ca.expiry` | The number of seconds until the signing CA expires, updated every hour. | seconds | gauge |
| `consul.agent.tls.cert.expiry` | The number of seconds until the Agent TLS certificate expires, updated every hour. | seconds | gauge |
| `consul.proxy.web.runtime.*` | The same go runtime metrics as documented for the agent above. | mixed | mixed |
| `consul.proxy.web.inbound.conns` | Shows the current number of connections open from inbound requests to the proxy. Where supported a `dst` label is added indicating the service name the proxy represents. | connections | gauge |
| `consul.proxy.web.inbound.rx_bytes` | Increments by the number of bytes received from an inbound client connection. Where supported a `dst` label is added indicating the service name the proxy represents. | bytes | counter |
| `consul.proxy.web.inbound.tx_bytes` | Increments by the number of bytes transferred to an inbound client connection. Where supported a `dst` label is added indicating the service name the proxy represents. | bytes | counter |
| `consul.proxy.web.upstream.conns` | Shows the current number of connections open from a proxy instance to an upstream. Where supported a `src` label is added indicating the service name the proxy represents, and a `dst` label is added indicating the service name the upstream is connecting to. | connections | gauge |
| `consul.proxy.web.inbound.rx_bytes` | Increments by the number of bytes received from an upstream connection. Where supported a `src` label is added indicating the service name the proxy represents, and a `dst` label is added indicating the service name the upstream is connecting to. | bytes | counter |
| `consul.proxy.web.inbound.tx_bytes` | Increments by the number of bytes transferred to an upstream connection. Where supported a `src` label is added indicating the service name the proxy represents, and a `dst` label is added indicating the service name the upstream is connecting to. | bytes | counter |
[Cluster peering](/docs/connect/cluster-peering) refers to Consul clusters that communicate through a peer connection, as opposed to a federated connection. Consul collects metrics that describe the number of services exported to a peered cluster. Peering metrics are only emitted by the leader server. These metrics are emitted every 9 seconds.
| `consul.peering.exported_services` | Counts the number of services exported with [exported service configuration entries](/docs/connect/config-entries/exported-services) to a peer cluster. | count | gauge |
| `consul.peering.healthy` | Tracks the health of a peering connection as reported by the server. If Consul detects errors while sending or receiving from a peer which do not recover within a reasonable time, this metric returns 0. Healthy connections return 1. | health | gauge |
