Apache metrics

Many of the collected metrics from Apache 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 some of the metrics collected for these entities. To see the Apache metrics in the Metrics Explorer, type apache. in the search box.

Metric	Units	Description
apache.cpu.load	Percent (%)	The current load of the CPU.
apache.cpu.time	Jiff	The jiffs used by processes of a given category.
apache.current_connections	Connections	The number of active connections currently attached to the HTTP server.
apache.load.1	Percent (%)	The average server load during the last minute.
apache.load.15	Percent (%)	The average server load during the last 15 minutes.
apache.load.5	Percent (%)	The average server load during the last 5 minutes.
apache.request.time	milliseconds (ms)	Total time spent on handling requests.
apache.request.time.rate	milliseconds (ms)	Total time spent on handling requests.
apache.requests	Requests	The number of requests serviced by the HTTP server per second.
apache.requests.rate	milliseconds (ms)	Total time spent on handling requests.
apache.scoreboard	Workers	The number of workers in each state.
apache.throughput	Byte per request	The average number of bytes served per request.
apache.time.perrequest	milliseconds per request	The average processing time per request.
apache.traffic	Byte	Total HTTP server traffic in bytes.
apache.traffic.rate	Byte per request	HTTP server traffic in bytes per second.
apache.uptime	seconds (s)	The amount of time that the server has been running in seconds.
apache.workers	Workers	The number of workers currently attached to the HTTP server.
apache.workers.idle	Workers	The number of idle workers.