Prometheus Metrics

Routinator’s monitoring service provides comprehensive metrics in Prometheus format at the /metrics endpoint. Here you can find an overview of all metrics and their meaning.

routinator_last_update_start

Seconds since the start of the last update.

routinator_last_update_duration

Duration of the last update in seconds.

routinator_last_update_done

Seconds since the end of the last update.

routinator_serial

The current serial number for data served to RTR clients.

Publication Metrics

Publication metrics are provided for all trust anchors and for each RPKI repository.

All metrics for trust anchors have a label name, named after the Trust Anchor Locator file name without the .tal extension, e.g. arin. All metrics for repositories have a label uri specifying the URI of the notification file of the RRDP repository, or the base URI of the rsync repository.

routinator_{ta,repository}_publication_points_total

The number of publication points per trust anchor. In most cases these will be the five Regional Internet Registries, but will include the trust anchors of any configured testbeds as well.

This metric has two labels: either name or uri, followed by the state which is valid or rejected.

routinator_{ta,repository}_objects_total

Metrics for each configured trust anchor. In most cases these will be the five Regional Internet Registries, but will include the trust anchors of any configured testbeds as well.

This metric has three labels: either name or uri, followed by type for the type of object, e.g. crl, and lastly state describing its validity state, such as valid or stale.

The types and states of objects can be:
  • manifest - The number of manifests for each of the states valid, invalid, stale and missing. A manifest is invalid if it is not correctly encoded, has expired or is not correctly signed by the issuing CA. It is considered stale if the current time is past the time an update to the manifest should have been issued. Whether a stale manifest is valid or invalid depends on configuration. By default a stale manifest is considered invalid.

  • crl - The number of certificate revocation lists for each of the states valid, invalid, stale and stray. A CRL is invalid if it is not correctly encoded or is not correctly signed by the issuing CA. It is considered stale if the current time is past the time an update to the manifest should have been issued. Whether a stale manifest is valid or invalid depends on configuration. By default a stale CRL is considered invalid. Lastly, each CA should only issue one CRL. This CRL should both be listed on the manifest and used by the manifest’s certificate itself. Any manifest listed on the manifest that is not also the manifest’s own CRL is considered a stray.

  • ca_cert - The number of Certificate Authority (CA) certificates with the state valid.

  • router_cert - The number of router certificates found to be present and valid. This only refers to such certificates included as stand-alone files which are BGPsec router certificates.

  • roa - The number of Route Origin Attestations for each of the states valid and invalid.

  • gbr - The number of Ghostbusters Records for each of the states valid and invalid. Note that currently the content of a Ghostbuster Record is not checked.

  • other - The number of objects found that are not certificates (.cer), Certificate Revocation Lists (.crl), manifests (.mft), ROAs (.roa), or Ghostbuster Records (.gbr) and have the state invalid.

The following metrics all have just one label, either name in case of a trust anchor or uri for repositories:

routinator_{ta,repository}_valid_vrps_total

The number of VRPs found to be present and valid.

routinator_{ta,repository}_unsafe_vrps_total

The number of VRPs found to be unsafe.

routinator_{ta,repository}_locally_filtered_vrps_total

The number of VRPs that are filtered as the result of a local exception.

routinator_{ta,repository}_duplicate_vrps_total

The number of duplicate VRPs resulting from ROAs containing the same authorisation.

Note that if a VRP appears in multiple trust anchors or repositories, which occurrence is considered the duplicate depends on the order of processing which may change between validation runs. Thus, this number may change unexpectedly.

routinator_{ta,repository}_contributed_vrps_total

The number of VRPs that are contributed by this trust anchor or repository to the final set provided to your routers. This is the total number of VRPs, minus the ones that are locally filtered, duplicate, and, if configured to be dropped, unsafe.

Rsync Update Metrics

For each repository updated via rsync the following values are given.

routinator_rsync_status

The status code returned by the rsync process. A value of 0 means the process has finished successfully. The meaning of other values depends on the rsync client used. Please refer to its documentation for further details.

routinator_rsync_duration

The duration the rsync process was running in seconds.

RRDP Update Metrics

For each repository updated via RRDP the following values are given. All metrics have a label uri specifying the URI of the notification file of the RRDP repository.

routinator_rrdp_status

The overall status of the update. This will be 200 if the updated succeeded, 304 if no update was necessary because the data was already current, and any other value for a failed update. If the value is -1, it was not possible to reach the HTTPS server at all.

routinator_rrdp_notification_status

The status of retrieving the notification file. This is the first step of an RRDP update. A value of 200 indicates that the file was successfully retrieved. A value of 304 indicates that the file hasn’t changed since last update and no actual update is necessary. Any other value represents an error.

routinator_rrdp_payload_status

The status of retrieving the actual payload. This is the second step of an RRDP update and may either represent a single HTTPS request for the snapshot file or a series of HTTPS request for the sequence of delta files necessary to update from the last known state.

A value of 0 means that no payload retrieval was necessary. A value of 200 means that the update was successful. Any other value indicates an error. In case of a sequence of delta updates, this error may have been preceded by one or more successful requests.

routinator_rrdp_duration

The overall duration of the RRDP update in seconds.

routinator_rrdp_serial_info

The serial number stated by the RRDP server for the current data set. With each update the serial number is increased by one.

RTR Server Metrics

A number of metrics are provided describing the state of the included RTR server. These metrics are available whether the RTR server is actually enabled or not.

routinator_rtr_current_connections

The number of currently open RTR connections.

routinator_rtr_bytes_read

The total number of bytes read from RTR connections. In other words, describes how much data has been sent by clients.

routinator_rtr_bytes_written

The total number of bytes written to RTR connections. In other words, describes how much data has been sent to clients.

routinator_rtr_client_last_reset_seconds

The amount of seconds since last cache reset by a client address.

routinator_rtr_client_reset_queries

The number of reset queries by a client address.

routinator_rtr_client_serial_queries

The number of of serial queries by a client address.

New in version 0.12.0: routinator_rtr_client_last_reset_seconds, routinator_rtr_client_reset_queries and routinator_rtr_client_serial_queries

HTTP Server Metrics

A number of metrics are provided describing the state of the included HTTP server.

routinator_http_connections

The total number of connections made with the HTTP server.

routinator_http_current_connections

The number of currently open connections. This should at least be 1 as there is a connection open when requesting the JSON metrics.

requests

The total number of requests received and answered by the HTTP server.

routinator_http_bytes_read and routinator_http_bytes_written

The number of bytes read from and written to HTTP clients.