This article will help walk you through investigating which metrics are passing through a particular proxy using VMware Aria Operations for Applications Spy.
In your web browser, input your VMware Aria Operations for Applications URL and add /api/spy/points at the end.
Ex. https://t<your_cluster>.wavefront.com/api/spy/points
This will give you everything that is coming through your environment.
To check a specific proxy, use the same url but add ?proxy:<proxy_name_>
Ex. https://<your_cluster>.wavefront.com/api/spy/points?proxy:skybridge
From here you can check to see which metrics are coming through your proxy.
NOTE: This page will continuously run until you stop it.
Spying on points with
metric (prefix):
host (prefix):
pointTagKey(s):
at a sampling rate of: 1.0%
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"~proxy.config.httpConnectTimeout" source="skybridge" 1660945380000 5000.0 "processId"="4ca1b5bd"
"~proxy.config.customTracingListenerPorts" source="skybridge" 1660945380000 0.0 "processId"="4ca1b5bd"
"~proxy.config.blockRegex" source="skybridge" 1660945380000 0.0 "processId"="4ca1b5bd"
"~agent.push.2878.duration.rate.count" source="skybridge" 1660945380000 96.0 "processId"="4ca1b5bd"
"~agent.config.traceSamplingRate" source="skybridge" 1660945380000 1.0 "processId"="4ca1b5bd"
"~agent.config.httpHealthCheckFailResponseBody" source="skybridge" 1660945380000 0.0 "processId"="4ca1b5bd"
"~agent.config.histogramDistAccumulatorSize" source="skybridge" 1660945380000 100000.0 "processId"="4ca1b5bd"
"~agent.config.dataDogRequestRelaySyncMode" source="skybridge" 1660945380000 0.0 "processId"="4ca1b5bd"
"~agent.config.backendSpanHeadSamplingPercentIgnored" source="skybridge" 1660945380000 0.0 "processId"="4ca1b5bd"
If you would like to see how much usage that specific metric is using on the proxy, add &usage at the end.
Ex. https://<you_cluster>.wavefront.com/api/spy/points?proxy:skybridge&usage
Spying on points with metric (prefix): host (prefix): pointTagKey(s): at a sampling rate of: 1.0% ============================================================ "~proxy.push.2878.duration.duration.p95" source="skybridge" 1660945860000 91.968177 "processId"="4ca1b5bd" "~proxy.config.rawLogsMaxReceivedLength" source="skybridge" 1660945860000 4096.0 "processId"="4ca1b5bd" "~proxy.config.histogramHourFlushSecs" source="skybridge" 1660945860000 4200.0 "processId"="4ca1b5bd" "~agent.config.trafficShapingWindowSeconds" source="skybridge" 1660945860000 600.0 "processId"="4ca1b5bd" "~agent.config.histogramMinuteCompression" source="skybridge" 1660945860000 32.0 "processId"="4ca1b5bd" "~agent.config.dynamic.pushFlushInterval" source="skybridge" 1660945860000 1000.0 "processId"="4ca1b5bd" "~agent.buffer.task-added" source="skybridge" 1660945860000 1.3311829E7 "processId"="4ca1b5bd" "port"="2878"
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