View metrics

This topic explains how to view Apigee hybrid metrics in a Stackdriver dashboard.

About Stackdriver

For more information about metrics, dashboards, and Stackdriver see:

• Metrics Explorer documentation
• Introduction to alerting
• Creating charts

Enabling hybrid metrics

Before hybrid metrics can be sent to Stackdriver , you must first enable metrics collection. See Configure metrics collection for this procedure.

About hybrid metric names and labels

When enabled, hybrid automatically populates Stackdriver metrics. The domain name prefix of the metrics created by hybrid is:

apigee.googleapis.com/

For example, the /proxy/request_count metric contains the total number of requests received by an API proxy. The metric name in Stackdriver is therefore:

apigee.googleapis.com/proxy/request_count

Stackdriver lets you filter and group metrics data based on labels. Some labels are predefined, and others are added explicitly by hybrid. The Available metrics section below lists all of the available hybrid metrics and any labels added specifically for a metric that you can use for filtering and grouping.

Viewing metrics

1. Open the Monitoring Metrics Explorer in a browser. Alternatively, if you're already in the Stackdriver console, select Metrics explorer.

2. In Find resource type and metric, locate and select the metric you want to examine. Choose a specific metric listed in Available metrics , or search for a metric. For example, search for proxy/latencies :

   

3. Select the desired metric.
4. Apply filters. Filter choices for each metric are listed in Available metrics . For example, for the proxy_latencies metric, filter choices are: org= org_name .
5. Stackdriver displays the chart for the selected metric.
6. Click Save.

Creating a dashboard

Dashboards are one way for you to view and analyze metric data that is important to you. Stackdriver provides predefined dashboards for the resources and services that you use, and you can also create custom dashboards.

You use a chart to display an Apigee metric in your custom dashboard. With custom dashboards, you have complete control over the charts that are displayed and their configuration. For more information on creating charts, see Creating charts .

The following example shows how to create a dashboard in Stackdriver and then to add charts to view metrics data:

1. Open the Monitoring Metrics Explorer in a browser and then select Dashboards.
2. Select + Create Dashboard.
3. Give the dashboard a name. For example: Hybrid Proxy Request Traffic
4. Click Confirm.

5. For each chart that you want to add to your dashboard, follow these steps:

   1. In the dashboard, select Add chart.
   2. Select the desired metric as described above in Viewing metrics .
   3. Complete the dialog to define your chart.
   4. Click Save. Stackdriver displays data for the selected metric.

Available metrics

The following tables list metrics for analyzing proxy traffic.

Proxy, target, and server traffic metrics

The Prometheus service collects and processes metrics (as described in Metrics collection ) for proxy, target, and server traffic.

The following table describes the metrics and labels that Prometheus uses. These labels are used in the metrics log entries.

UDCA metrics

The Prometheus service collects and processes metrics (as described in Metrics collection ) for the UDCA service just as it does for other hybrid services.

The following table describes the metrics and labels that Prometheus uses in the UDCA metrics data. These labels are used in the metrics log entries.

Cassandra metrics

The Prometheus service collects and processes metrics (as described in Metrics collection ) for Cassandra just as it does for other hybrid services.

The following table describes the metrics and labels that Prometheus uses in the Cassandra metrics data. These labels are used in the metrics log entries.