Unified Load Balancer Configuration and Administration Guide, Release 2026.02

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ULB agent metrics

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Overview

Explains ULB agent metrics and summarizes key parameters, requirements, and reference information.

The following are the ULB agent metrics.

Name

Data Type

Metric Type

Description

egressmanagementpolicy_customresource_add_event_total

INT64

Counter

Total number of egressmanagementpolicies custom resource add events received.

egressmanagementpolicy_customresource_modify_event_total

INT64

Counter

Total number of egressmanagementpolicies custom resource modify events received.

egressmanagementpolicy_customresource_delete_event_total

INT64

Counter

Total number of egressmanagementpolicies custom resource delete events received.

pod_add_event_total

INT64

Counter

Total number of pod add events received.

pod_add_event_ignore_total

INT64

Counter

Total number of pod add events ignored.

pod_modify_event_total

INT64

Counter

Total number of pod modify events received.

pod_modify_event_ignore_total

INT64

Counter

Total number of pod modify events ignored.

pod_delete_event_total

INT64

Counter

Total number of pod delete events received.

node_add_event_total

Label: component

INT64

Counter

Total number of node add

events received.

node_add_event_ignored_total

Label: component (value: neigbor)

INT64

Counter

Total number of node add

events ignored.

node_modify_event_total

Label: component (value: neigbor)

INT64

Counter

Total number of node

modify events received.

node_modify_event_ignored_total

Label: component (value: neigbor)

INT64

Counter

Total number of node

modify events ignored.

node_delete_event_total

Label: component (value: neigbor)

INT64

Counter

Total number of node delete

events received.

loadbalancer_customresource_add_event_total

INT64

Counter

Total number of load

balancer custom

resource add events

received.

loadbalancer_customresource_delete_event_total

INT64

Counter

Total number of load

balancer custom

resource delete events

received.

loadbalancer_customresource_modify_event_total

INT64

Counter

Total number of load

balancer custom

resource modify events

received.

loadbalancer_pod_add_event_total

INT64

Counter

Total number of load

balancer pod add events

received.

loadbalancer_pod_modify_event_total

INT64

Counter

Total number of load

balancer pod modify

events received.

loadbalancer_pod_delete_event_total

INT64

Counter

Total number of load

balancer pod delete

events received.

loadbalancer_pod_add_event_ignored_total

INT64

Counter

Total number of load

balancer pod add events

ignored.

loadbalancer_pod_modify_event_ignored_total

INT64

Counter

Total number of load

balancer pod modify

events ignored.

loadbalancer_pod_delete_event_ignored_total

INT64

Counter

Total number of load

balancer pod delete

events ignored.

serviceoutboundroute_customresource_add_event_total

INT64

Counter

Total number of service

outbound route custom

resource add events

received.

serviceoutboundroute_customresource_modify_event_total

INT64

Counter

Total number of service

outbound route custom

resource modify events

received.

serviceoutboundroute_customresource_delete_event_total

INT64

Counter

Total number of service

outbound route custom

resource delete events

received.

serviceoutboundroute_customresource_add_event_ignored_total

INT64

Counter

Total number of service

outbound route custom

resource add events

ignored.

serviceoutboundroute_customresource_modify_event_ignored_total

INT64

Counter

Total number of service

outbound route custom

resource modify events

ignored.

serviceoutboundroute_customresource_delete_event_ignored_total

INT64

Counter

Total number of service

outbound route custom

resource delete events

ignored.

svc_packet_count

Labels: [svc_ip, svc_name, pod_ip, pod_port, pod_name, protocol, direction]

INT64

Counter

Total number of packets per service IP.

svc_byte_count

Labels: [svc_ip, svc_name, pod_ip, pod_port, pod_name, protocol, direction]

INT64

Counter

Total number of bytes per service IP.

The following table provides description of the labels associated with some of the agent metrics.

Label Name

Label Type

Description

svc_ip

STRING

IP address of the service.

svc_name

STRING

Name of our EMP service

pod_ip

STRING

Ip address of the backend pod

pod_port

STRING

Port used by backend pod

pod_name

STRING

Name of the backend pod.

protocol

STRING

L4 protocol – TCP or UDP

direction

STRING

IN/OUT packet direction.