Admission Review Latency

This metric can be used to track the end-to-end latencies associated with the entire individual admission review, corresponding to the incoming resource request triggering a bunch of policies and rules.

Metric Name(s)

  • kyverno_admission_review_duration_seconds_count
  • kyverno_admission_review_duration_seconds_sum
  • kyverno_admission_review_duration_seconds_bucket

Metric Value

Histogram - A float value representing the latency of the admission review in seconds.

See Prometheus docs for a detailed explanation of how histograms work.

Metric Labels

LabelAllowed ValuesDescription
request_allowed“true”, “false”If the admission review was accepeted or rejected.
request_webhook“ValidatingWebhookConfiguration”, “MutatingWebhookConfiguration”Type of webhook processing the admission review.
resource_kind“Pod”, “Deployment”, “StatefulSet”, “ReplicaSet”, etc.Kind of this resource
resource_namespaceNamespace in which this resource lives
resource_request_operation“create”, “update”, “delete”If the requested resource is being created, updated, or deleted.

Use cases

  • The cluster admin wants to know how fast/slow have the admission reviews been for incoming requests around “Deployment” creations in the default namespace.
  • The cluster admin wants to be alerted as soon as the p95 latency of admission reviews associated with the incoming “Pod” creation requests breach a certain threshold.

Useful Queries

  • Average latency associated with the admission reviews triggered by incoming resource requests, grouped by the resource:
    avg(kyverno_admission_review_duration_seconds{}) by (resource_type)

  • Maximum latency associated with the admission reviews triggered by incoming pod requests over last 24 hours:
    max(kyverno_admission_review_duration_seconds{resource_type="Pod"}[24h])

  • Listing the admission request which consumed maximum amount of latency in the last 60 minutes:
    max(kyverno_admission_review_duration_seconds{}[60m])


Last modified May 16, 2023 at 9:40 PM PST: fix: metrics docs (#851) (ea09ee2)