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Socket statistics

Socket statistics

Plugin: proc.plugin Module: /proc/net/sockstat

Overview

This integration provides socket statistics.

This collector is supported on all platforms.

This collector supports collecting metrics from multiple instances of this integration, including remote instances.

Default Behavior

Auto-Detection

This integration doesn’t support auto-detection.

Limits

The default configuration for this integration does not impose any limits on data collection.

Performance Impact

The default configuration for this integration is not expected to impose a significant performance impact on the system.

Setup

Prerequisites

No action required.

Configuration

File

There is no configuration file.

Options

There are no configuration options.

Examples

There are no configuration examples.

Metrics

Metrics grouped by scope.

The scope defines the instance that the metric belongs to. An instance is uniquely identified by a set of labels.

Per Socket statistics instance

This scope has no labels.

Metrics:

Metric Dimensions Unit
ip.sockstat_sockets used sockets
ipv4.sockstat_tcp_sockets alloc, orphan, inuse, timewait sockets
ipv4.sockstat_tcp_mem mem KiB
ipv4.sockstat_udp_sockets inuse sockets
ipv4.sockstat_udp_mem mem sockets
ipv4.sockstat_udplite_sockets inuse sockets
ipv4.sockstat_raw_sockets inuse sockets
ipv4.sockstat_frag_sockets inuse fragments
ipv4.sockstat_frag_mem mem KiB

Alerts

The following alerts are available:

Alert name On metric Description
tcp_orphans ipv4.sockstat_tcp_sockets orphan IPv4 TCP sockets utilization
tcp_memory ipv4.sockstat_tcp_mem TCP memory utilization

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