Unified Load Balancer Configuration and Administration Guide, Release 2026.02

ULB operator metrics

Updated: April 23, 2026

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Overview

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

The following are the ULB operator metrics.


Name	Data Type	Metric Type	Description
loadbalancer_custom_resource_add_success_total Labels: [NameSpace, Kind, CrName, SvcName, PodName, Error]	INT64	Counter	Total number of successful loadbalancer custom resource add requests received.
loadbalancer_custom_resource_add_fail_total Labels: [NameSpace, Kind, CrName, SvcName, PodName, Error]	INT64	Counter	Total number of failed loadbalancer custom resource add requests received.
loadbalancer_custom_resource_modify_success_total Labels: [NameSpace, Kind, CrName, SvcName, PodName, Error]	INT64	Counter	Total number of successful loadbalancer custom resource modify requests received.
loadbalancer_custom_resource_modify_fail_total Labels: [NameSpace, Kind, CrName, SvcName, PodName, Error]	INT64	Counter	Total number of failed loadbalancer custom resource modify requests received.
loadbalancer_custom_resource_delete_success_total Labels: [NameSpace, Kind, CrName, SvcName, PodName, Error]	INT64	Counter	Total number of successful loadbalancer custom resource delete requests received.
loadbalancer_custom_resource_delete_fail_total Labels: [NameSpace, Kind, CrName, SvcName, PodName, Error]	INT64	Counter	Total number of failed loadbalancer custom resource delete requests received.
egressmanagementpolicies_custom_resource_add_success_total Labels: [NameSpace, Kind, CrName, SvcName, PodName, Error]	INT64	Counter	Total number of successful egressmanagementpolicies custom resource add requests received.
egressmanagementpolicies_custom_resource_add_fail_total Labels: [NameSpace, Kind, CrName, SvcName, PodName, Error]	INT64	Counter	Total number of failed egressmanagementpolicies custom resource add requests received.
egressmanagementpolicies_custom_resource_modify_success_total Labels: [NameSpace, Kind, CrName, SvcName, PodName, Error]	INT64	Counter	Total number of successful egressmanagementpolicies custom resource modify requests received.
egressmanagementpolicies_custom_resource_modify_fail_total Labels: [NameSpace, Kind, CrName, SvcName, PodName, Error]	INT64	Counter	Total number of failed egressmanagementpolicies custom resource modify requests received.
egressmanagementpolicies_custom_resource_delete_success_total Labels: [NameSpace, Kind, CrName, SvcName, PodName, Error]	INT64	Counter	Total number of successful egressmanagementpolicies custom resource delete requests received.
egressmanagementpolicies_custom_resource_delete_fail_total Labels: [NameSpace, Kind, CrName, SvcName, PodName, Error]	INT64	Counter	Total number of failed egressmanagementpolicies custom resource delete requests received.
service_modify_total_not_loadbalancer_owner Labels: [NameSpace, Kind, CrName, SvcName, PodName, Error]	INT64	Counter	Total number of service modify requests failed due to service not owned by load balancer
service_delete_total_not_loadbalancer_owner Labels: [NameSpace, Kind, CrName, SvcName, PodName, Error]	INT64	Counter	Total number of service delete requests failed due to service not owned by load balancer
service_modify_total_not_egressmanagementpolicies_owner Labels: [NameSpace, Kind, CrName, SvcName, PodName, Error]	INT64	Counter	Total number of service modify requests failed due to service not owned by egressmanagementpolicies
service_delete_total_not_egressmanagementpolicies_owner Labels: [NameSpace, Kind, CrName, SvcName, PodName, Error]	INT64	Counter	Total number of service modify requests failed due to service not owned by egressmanagementpolicies.

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


Label Name	Label Type	Description
NameSpace	STRING	Namespace in which the resource is created.
Kind	STRING	It will display the kind of resource created.
CrName	STRING	Name of the Custom Resource.
SvcName	STRING	Name of the service created.
PodName	STRING	Name of the pod.
Error	STRING	Error string in case of failure.

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