Cloud Provider

Note: Sysdig follows the Prometheus-compabtible naming convention for both metrics and labels as opposed to the previous statsd-compatible, legacy Sysdig naming convention. However, this page still shows metrics in the legacy Sysdig naming convention. Until this page is updated, see Metrics and Label Mapping for the mapping between Sysdig legacy and Prometheus naming conventions.

At this time, all cloudProvider metrics are AWS-related.

cloudProvider.account.id

The cloud provider instance account number.

This metric is useful if there are multiple accounts linked with Sysdig Monitor.

MetadataDescription
Metric TypeGauge
Value TypeString
Segment ByCloudProvider
Default Time AggregationN/A
Available Time Aggregation FormatsN/A
Default Group AggregationN/A
Available Group Aggregation FormatsN/A

cloudProvider.availabilityZone

The AWS Availability Zone where the entity or entities are located. Each availability zone is an isolated subsection of an AWS region. See cloudProvider.region.

MetadataDescription
Metric TypeGauge
Value TypeString
Segment ByCloudProvider
Default Time AggregationN/A
Available Time Aggregation FormatsN/A
Default Group AggregationN/A
Available Group Aggregation FormatsN/A

cloudProvider.host.ip.private

The private IP address allocated by the cloud provider for the instance. This address can be used for communication between instances in the same network.

MetadataDescription
Metric TypeGauge
Value TypeString
Segment ByCloudProvider
Default Time AggregationN/A
Available Time Aggregation FormatsN/A
Default Group AggregationN/A
Available Group Aggregation FormatsN/A

cloudProvider.host.ip.public

Public IP address of the selected host.

MetadataDescription
Metric TypeGauge
Value TypeString
Segment ByCloudProvider
Default Time AggregationN/A
Available Time Aggregation FormatsN/A
Default Group AggregationN/A
Available Group Aggregation FormatsN/A

cloudProvider.host.name

The name of the host as reported by the cloud provider.

MetadataDescription
Metric TypeGauge
Value TypeString
Segment ByCloudProvider
Default Time AggregationN/A
Available Time Aggregation FormatsN/A
Default Group AggregationN/A
Available Group Aggregation FormatsN/A

cloudProvider.id

The ID number as assigned and reported by the cloud provider.

MetadataDescription
Metric TypeGauge
Value TypeString
Segment ByCloudProvider
Default Time AggregationN/A
Available Time Aggregation FormatsN/A
Default Group AggregationN/A
Available Group Aggregation FormatsN/A

cloudProvider.instance.type

The type of instance (for example, AWS or Rackspace).

This metric is extremely useful to segment instances and compare their resource usage and saturation. You can use it as a grouping criteria for the explore table to quickly explore AWS usage on a per-instance-type basis. You can also use it to compare things like CPU usage, number of requests or network utilization for different instance types.

Use this grouping criteria in conjunction with the host.count metric to easily create a report on how many instances of each type you have.

MetadataDescription
Metric TypeGauge
Value TypeString
Segment ByCloudProvider
Default Time AggregationN/A
Available Time Aggregation FormatsN/A
Default Group AggregationN/A
Available Group Aggregation FormatsN/A

cloudProvider.name

The name of the instance (for example, AWS or Rackspace).

MetadataDescription
Metric TypeGauge
Value TypeString
Segment ByCloudProvider
Default Time AggregationN/A
Available Time Aggregation FormatsN/A
Default Group AggregationN/A
Available Group Aggregation FormatsN/A

cloudProvider.region

The region the cloud provider host (or group of hosts) is located in.

Use this grouping criteria in conjunction with the host.count metric to easily create a report on how many instances you have in each region.

MetadataDescription
Metric TypeGauge
Value TypeString
Segment ByCloudProvider
Default Time AggregationN/A
Available Time Aggregation FormatsN/A
Default Group AggregationN/A
Available Group Aggregation FormatsN/A

cloudProvider.resource.endPoint

The DNS name for which the resource can be accessed.

MetadataDescription
Metric TypeGauge
Value TypeString
Segment ByCloudProvider
Default Time AggregationN/A
Available Time Aggregation FormatsN/A
Default Group AggregationN/A
Available Group Aggregation FormatsN/A

cloudProvider.resource.name

The cloud provider service name (for example, Amazon EC2 or Amazon ELB).

MetadataDescription
Metric TypeGauge
Value TypeString
Segment ByCloudProvider
Default Time AggregationN/A
Available Time Aggregation FormatsN/A
Default Group AggregationN/A
Available Group Aggregation FormatsN/A

cloudProvider.resource.type

The cloud provider service type (for example, INSTANCE, LOAD_BALANCER, DATABASE).

MetadataDescription
Metric TypeGauge
Value TypeString
Segment ByCloudProvider
Default Time AggregationN/A
Available Time Aggregation FormatsN/A
Default Group AggregationN/A
Available Group Aggregation FormatsN/A

cloudProvider.status

Resource status.

MetadataDescription
Metric TypeGauge
Value TypeString
Segment ByCloudProvider
Default Time AggregationN/A
Available Time Aggregation FormatsN/A
Default Group AggregationN/A
Available Group Aggregation FormatsN/A
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