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Overview

This document lists some of the metrics available from Observability Pipelines. You can:

  • Create your own dashboards, notebooks, and monitors with these metrics.
  • Use Metrics Summary to see metadata and tags available for the metrics. You can also see which dashboards, notebooks, monitors, and SLOs are using those metrics.

See Getting Started with Tags for more information on how to use tags to group metrics by specific pipelines, Workers, and components.

Estimated usage metric

Observability Pipelines ingested bytes
Metric: datadog.estimated_usage.observability_pipelines.ingested_bytes
Description: The volume of data ingested by Observability Pipelines. See Estimated Usage Metrics for more information.

Pipeline metrics

Bytes in per second
Metrics: pipelines.host.network_receive_bytes_total
Description: The number of events the pipeline receives per second.
Bytes out per second
Metrics: pipelines.host.network_receive_bytes_total
Description: The number of bytes the pipeline receives per second.

Component metrics

These metrics are available for sources, processors, and destinations.

Bytes in per second
Metric: pipelines.component_received_bytes_total
Description: The number of bytes the component receives per second.
Available for: Sources, processors, and destinations.
Bytes out per second
Metric: pipelines.component_sent_events_total
Description: The number of bytes the component sends to the destinations.
Available for: Sources, processors, and destinations.
Events in per second
Metric: pipelines.component_received_event_bytes_total
Description: The number of events the component receives per second.
Available for: Sources, processors, and destinations.
Events out per second
Metric: pipelines.component_sent_event_bytes_total
Description: The number of events the component sends to the destinations.
Available for: Sources, processors, and destinations.
Errors
Metric: pipelines.component_errors_total
Description: The number of errors encountered by the component.
Available for: Sources, processors, and destinations.
Data dropped intentionally or unintentionally
Metric: pipelines.component_discarded_events_total
Description: The number of events dropped. Note: To break down this metric, use the intentional:true tag to filter for events that are intentionally dropped or the intentional:false tag for events that are not intentionally dropped.
Available for: Sources, processors, and destinations.
Timed out events
Metric: pipelines.component_timed_out_events_total
Description: The number of events that waited more than 5 seconds to be sent to the first processor and resulted in a HTTP 503 error. This could happen when delivery of events are blocked.
Available for: HTTP-based sources that have a configured timeout, such as the Datadog Agent.
Timed out requests
Metric: pipelines.component_timed_out_requests_total
Description: The number of requests that timed out for sources that send events to the Worker in batches using HTTP requests.
Available for: HTTP-based sources that have a configured timeout, such as the Datadog Agent.
Utilization
Metric: pipelines.utilization
Description: The component’s activity. A value of 0 indicates an idle component that is waiting for input. A value of 1 indicates a component that is never idle, which means that the component is likely a bottleneck in the processing topology that is creating backpressure, which might cause events to be dropped.
Available for: Processors and destinations.

Buffer metrics (when buffering is enabled)

Track buffer behavior with these additional metrics:

pipelines.buffer_size_events
Number of events currently in the buffer.
pipelines.buffer_size_bytes
Number of bytes currently in the buffer.
pipelines.buffer_received_events_total
Cumulative number of events written to the buffer.
pipelines.buffer_received_event_bytes_total
Cumulative number of bytes written to the buffer.
pipelines.buffer_sent_events_total
Cumulative number of events read from the buffer and sent downstream.
pipelines.buffer_sent_event_bytes_total
Cumulative number of bytes read from the buffer and sent downstream.
pipelines.buffer_discarded_events_total
Cumulative number of events dropped by a buffer.
pipelines.source_buffer_utilization
Histogram of event count in a source’s buffer. Sources ingest events, then write them to this buffer.
pipelines.source_buffer_utilization_level
Current event count in a source’s buffer. Sources ingest events, then write them to this buffer.
pipelines.source_buffer_utilization_mean
The exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) of the number of events in the source’s buffer.
pipelines.source_buffer_max_size_events
A source’s maximum buffer size, defined as the number of events.
pipelines.transform_buffer_utilization
Histogram of event count in a processor’s buffer. Processors pull from this buffer, transform the event, and then send it downstream.
pipelines.transform_buffer_utilization_level
Current event count in a processor’s buffer. Processors pull from this buffer, transform the event, and then send it downstream.
pipelines.transform_buffer_utilization_mean
The exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) of the number of events in the processor’s buffer.
pipelines.transform_buffer_max_size_events
A processor’s maximum buffer size, defined as the number of events.

Further reading