Proxy Metrics
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Envoy Gateway provides observability for the ControlPlane and the underlying EnvoyProxy instances. This task show you how to config proxy metrics.
Prerequisites
Follow the steps from the Quickstart to install Envoy Gateway and the example manifest. Before proceeding, you should be able to query the example backend using HTTP.
Envoy Gateway provides an add-ons Helm Chart, which includes all the needing components for observability. By default, the OpenTelemetry Collector is disabled.
Install the add-ons Helm Chart:
helm install eg-addons oci://docker.io/envoyproxy/gateway-addons-helm --version v1.1.1 --set opentelemetry-collector.enabled=true -n monitoring --create-namespace
Metrics
By default, Envoy Gateway expose metrics with prometheus endpoint.
Verify metrics:
export ENVOY_POD_NAME=$(kubectl get pod -n envoy-gateway-system --selector=gateway.envoyproxy.io/owning-gateway-namespace=default,gateway.envoyproxy.io/owning-gateway-name=eg -o jsonpath='{.items[0].metadata.name}')
kubectl port-forward pod/$ENVOY_POD_NAME -n envoy-gateway-system 19001:19001
# check metrics
curl localhost:19001/stats/prometheus | grep "default/backend/rule/0"
You can disable metrics by setting the telemetry.metrics.prometheus.disable to true in the EnvoyProxy CRD.
kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/envoyproxy/gateway/latest/examples/kubernetes/metric/disable-prometheus.yaml
Envoy Gateway can send metrics to OpenTelemetry Sink. Send metrics to OTel-Collector:
kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/envoyproxy/gateway/latest/examples/kubernetes/metric/otel-sink.yaml
Verify OTel-Collector metrics:
export OTEL_POD_NAME=$(kubectl get pod -n monitoring --selector=app.kubernetes.io/name=opentelemetry-collector -o jsonpath='{.items[0].metadata.name}')
kubectl port-forward pod/$OTEL_POD_NAME -n monitoring 19001:19001
# check metrics
curl localhost:19001/metrics | grep "default/backend/rule/0"
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