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| author | Ben Kochie <superq@gmail.com> | 2018-01-19 15:24:27 +0100 |
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| committer | Ben Kochie <superq@gmail.com> | 2018-06-08 13:09:03 +0200 |
| commit | 8871b4ebc2aaf741a7c141af96961fbf0be3dd31 (patch) | |
| tree | 92d775f3f5a1ce818347b9f4574bccdc85cc4877 | |
| parent | d17485412c881e25c21253e6718f726bb4006652 (diff) | |
| download | gitlab-ce-bjk/update_metrics_docs.tar.gz | |
Add clarification of Prometheus Histograms.bjk/update_metrics_docs
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/administration/monitoring/prometheus/gitlab_metrics.md | 6 |
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diff --git a/doc/administration/monitoring/prometheus/gitlab_metrics.md b/doc/administration/monitoring/prometheus/gitlab_metrics.md index cf17e599e04..f0d6a77f528 100644 --- a/doc/administration/monitoring/prometheus/gitlab_metrics.md +++ b/doc/administration/monitoring/prometheus/gitlab_metrics.md @@ -55,6 +55,12 @@ The following metrics are available: | filesystem_circuitbreaker | Gauge | 9.5 | Whether or not the circuit for a certain shard is broken or not | | circuitbreaker_storage_check_duration_seconds | Histogram | 10.3 | Time a single storage probe took | +NOTE: Histogram metrics are composed of 3 pieces. + +* <name>_bucket - The histogram buckets. (`le` label for each bucket) +* <name>_sum - The total of observations. +* <name>_count - The total count of observations. + ## Metrics shared directory GitLab's Prometheus client requires a directory to store metrics data shared between multi-process services. |