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Load Balancing Exporter

OpenTelemetry Collector exporter · contrib distribution

Component ID: contrib-loadbalancingexporter
Name: loadbalancingexporter
Type: exporter
Distribution: contrib
Repository: opentelemetry-collector-contrib

Stability

Level	Signals
alpha	metrics
beta	logs, traces

Internal telemetry

Metric	Type	Value type	Unit	Stability	Enabled	Attributes	Description
`loadbalancer_backend_latency`	histogram	int	ms	development	yes	`endpoint` (string)	Response latency in ms for the backends.
`loadbalancer_backend_outcome`	sum (monotonic)	int	{outcomes}	development	yes	`success` (bool)	Number of successes and failures for each endpoint.
`loadbalancer_num_backend_updates`	sum (monotonic)	int	{updates}	development	yes	`resolver` (string)	Number of times the list of backends was updated.
`loadbalancer_num_backends`	gauge	int	{backends}	development	yes	`resolver` (string)	Current number of backends in use.
`loadbalancer_num_resolutions`	sum (monotonic)	int	{resolutions}	development	yes	`resolver` (string), `success` (bool)	Number of times the resolver has triggered new resolutions.

Attributes

Attribute	Type	Description
`endpoint`	string	The endpoint of the backend
`resolver`	string	Resolver used
`success`	bool	Whether an outcome was successful

Data

JSON (latest): /data/collector/components/contrib-loadbalancingexporter/latest.json
JSON (pinned): /data/collector/components/contrib-loadbalancingexporter/contrib-loadbalancingexporter-b1db25f6ce76.json
Explore: /collector/components/contrib/loadbalancingexporter