# Traffic Metrics
Kuma facilitates consistent traffic metrics across all data plane proxies in your mesh.
You add metrics to a mesh configuration, or to an individual Dataplane configuration if you need, for example, to override the default metrics port that's already in use on the specified machine.
Kuma provides full integration with Prometheus:
- Each proxy can expose its metrics in
Prometheus
format. - Because metrics are part of the mesh configuration, Prometheus can automatically find every proxy in the mesh.
To collect metrics from Kuma, you need to first expose metrics from proxies and then configure Prometheus to collect them.
# Expose metrics from data plane proxies
To expose metrics from every proxy in the mesh, configure the Mesh
resource:
This tells Kuma to configure every proxy in the default
mesh to expose an HTTP endpoint with Prometheus metrics on port 5670
and URI path /metrics
.
The metrics endpoint is forwarded to the standard Envoy Prometheus metrics endpoint (opens new window) and supports the same query parameters.
You can pass the filter
query parameter to limit the results to metrics whose names match a given regular expression.
By default all available metrics are returned.
# Override Prometheus settings per data plane proxy
# Configure Prometheus
Although proxy metrics are now exposed, you still need to let Prometheus discover them.
In Prometheus version 2.29 and later, you can add Kuma metrics to your prometheus.yml
:
scrape_configs:
- job_name: 'kuma-dataplanes'
scrape_interval: "5s"
relabel_configs:
- source_labels:
- __meta_kuma_mesh
regex: "(.*)"
target_label: mesh
- source_labels:
- __meta_kuma_dataplane
regex: "(.*)"
target_label: dataplane
- source_labels:
- __meta_kuma_service
regex: "(.*)"
target_label: service
- action: labelmap
regex: __meta_kuma_label_(.+)
kuma_sd_configs:
- server: "http://kuma-control-plane.kuma-system.svc:5676"
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For more information, see the Prometheus documentation (opens new window).
For earlier versions of Prometheus, Kuma provides the kuma-prometheus-sd
tool, which runs alongside your Prometheus instance.
This tool fetches a list of current data plane proxies from the Kuma control plane and saves the list in Prometheus-compatible format
to a file on disk. Prometheus watches for changes to the file and updates its scraping configuration accordingly.
Check the Targets page in the Prometheus dashboard. You should see a list of data plane proxies from your mesh. For example:

# Secure data plane proxy metrics
Kuma lets you expose proxy metrics in a secure way by leveraging mTLS. Prometheus needs to be a part of the mesh for this feature to work, which is the default deployment model when kumactl install metrics
is used on Kubernetes.
# Expose metrics from applications
In addition to exposing metrics from the data plane proxies, you might want to expose metrics from applications running next to the proxies.
To consume paths protected by mTLS, you need Traffic Permission that lets Prometheus consume applications.
# Grafana Dashboards
Kuma ships with four default dashboards that are available to import from the Grafana Labs repository (opens new window).
# Kuma Dataplane
This dashboards lets you investigate the status of a single dataplane in the mesh.




# Kuma Mesh
This dashboard lets you investigate the aggregated statistics of a single mesh.

# Kuma Service to Service
This dashboard lets you investigate aggregated statistics from dataplanes of given source service to dataplanes of given destination service.


# Kuma CP
This dashboard lets you investigate statistics of the control plane.



# Kuma Service
This dashboard lets you investigate aggregated statistics for each service.

# Grafana Datasource
The Grafana Datasource is a datasource specifically built to relate information from the control-plane with prometheus metrics.
Current features include:
- Display the graph of your services with the MeshGraph using grafana nodeGraph panel (opens new window).
- List meshes.
- List zones.
- List services.
To use the plugin you'll need to add the binary to your grafana instance by following the installation instructions (opens new window).
To make things simpler the datasource is installed and configured when using kumactl install metrics
.