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OpenTelemetry RED Requests metrics

Included in Checkmk Ultimate and Checkmk Ultimate MT
Source Code License Proprietary
Supported Agents Otel

This check is based on the RED (Rate, Error, Duration) Method for monitoring services. It monitors the amount and rate of requests through the following OTel metrics * http.server.requests.duration which is emitted by http services * rpc.server.duration which is emitted by rpc services or if none of those is available: * traces.span.metrics.duration which is emitted on a collector level and is used as fallback

Item

The name of the metric.

Discovery

One service is created for each metric.