METRICS.md

Metrics

• Metrics
  • Runtime Metrics
  • Proxy Metrics
    • toxiproxy_proxy_received_bytes_total / toxiproxy_proxy_sent_bytes_total

Runtime Metrics

To enable runtime metrics related to the state of the go runtime, build version, process info, use the -runtime-metrics flag.

For more details, see below:

• NewGoCollector
• NewBuildInfoCollector
• NewProcessCollector

Proxy Metrics

To enable metrics related to toxiproxy internals, use the -proxy-metrics flag.

toxiproxy_proxy_received_bytes_total / toxiproxy_proxy_sent_bytes_total

The total number of bytes received/sent on a given proxy link in a given direction

sequenceDiagram
    Client->>+Toxiproxy: toxiproxy_proxy_received_bytes_total{direction="upstream"}
    Toxiproxy->>+Server: toxiproxy_proxy_sent_bytes_total{direction="upstream"}
    Server->>+Toxiproxy: toxiproxy_proxy_received_bytes_total{direction="downstream"}
    Toxiproxy->>+Client: toxiproxy_proxy_sent_bytes_total{direction="downstream"}

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Labels

Label	Description	Example
direction	Direction of the link	upstream / downstream
listener	Listener address of this proxy	0.0.0.0:8080
proxy	Proxy name	my-proxy
upstream	Upstream address of this proxy	httpbin.org:80