SolarWinds Observability Agent metrics
Many of the collected metrics from agent entities are displayed as widgets in SolarWinds Observability explorers; additional metrics may be collected and available in the Metrics Explorer. You can also create an alert for when an entity's metric value moves out of a specific range. See Entities in SolarWinds Observability SaaS for information about entity types in SolarWinds Observability SaaS.
The following table lists system. or process. in the search box.
To see a description for a metric which is not in the table, click the metric in the Metrics Explorer and type desc into the Group by field. The metric description will be displayed below the graph. For a complete list of available metrics, see Host Metrics Receiver in the opentelemetry-collector-contrib repository at GitHub.
| Metric | Units | Description |
|---|---|---|
swo.uams.agent.status
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possible values: ok , updating, update_failed, restarting, disconnected, stopping, jwt_expired |
The reported operating status of the Agent |
swo.uams.agent.heartbeat
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Reported by the SolarWinds Observability Agent every 1 minute, when it is not reported then may indicate problems with network or the agent. |
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swo.uams.agent.cpu
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Percent (%) | The average amount of CPU capacity in use, as a percentage |
swo.uams.agent.memory
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Percent (%) |
The average amount of memory in use, as a percentage. |
swo.uams.agent.diskUsage
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Percent (%) | The amount of storage being used by files and data. |
swo.uams.agent.networkIn
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The average amount of data received over the network, in bits. This metric is not collected for Windows due to operating system limitations. |
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swo.uams.agent.networkOut
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The average amount of data send over the network, in bits. This metric is not collected for Windows due to operating system limitations. |
swo.uams.agent.errors.count
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The amount of errors from the Agent logs - it is calculated from the recent Agent restart. | |
swo.uams.agent.uptime
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The amount of time from the recent SWO Agent restart. | |
swo.uams.plugin.cpu |
The average amount of CPU used by the plugin, as a percentage . | |
swo.uams.plugin.memory
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The average amount of memory used by the plugin, as a percentage. | |
swo.uams.plugin.uptime
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The amount of time from the recent plugin or SWO Agent restart. | |
swo.uams.plugin.status
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The reported operating status of plugin. See Possible values for plugin status. | |
swo.uams.plugin.healthy
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0,1 | It is calculated based on reported operating status of plugin and indicate for problems with plugin. |
Possible values for plugin status
| Plugin status | Healthy metric value | Description |
|---|---|---|
STATUS_CODE_OK
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1 | The plugin is responding via health checks. |
STATUS_CODE_STOPPED
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0 | The plugin process stopped by user, not caused by error. |
STATUS_CODE_BROKEN
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0 | The plugin was not deployed correctly. |
STATUS_CODE_START_FAILED
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0 | The plugin process cannot be started and Agent tries run it in the loop. |
STATUS_CODE_NOT_RESPONDING
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0 | The health check from the plugin process was not received for a defined amount of time but the plugin process is running. |
STATUS_CODE_HEALTHCHECK_FAILED
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0 | Failed to send a health check request to the plugin process. |
STATUS_CODE_CONFIGURATION_ISSUE
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0 | Reported by plugin and it indicates an invalid or missing configuration. |
STATUS_CODE_FAILED
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0 | The plugin process was stopped unexpectedly. |
STATUS_CODE_STARTING
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0 | Start for plugin process was called. |
STATUS_CODE_RESTARTING
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1 | Restart was called. |
STATUS_CODE_STOPPING
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0 | Stop for plugin process was called. |
STATUS_CODE_UPDATING
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0 | Update for plugin was called. |
STATUS_CODE_CRITICAL
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0 | Reported by plugin. |
STATUS_CODE_WARNING
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0 | Reported by plugin. |
STATUS_CODE_JWT_EXPIRED
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0 | It is not possible to refresh JWT. |
STATUS_CODE_UPDATE_FAILED
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0 | Problems with plugin update. |
STATUS_CODE_INVALID
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0 | Unknown reason. |