VMware Aria Operations for Applications Spy to Investigate Metrics per Proxy – VMware Aria Operations for Applications Knowledge Base

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 ?wavefrontSource=proxy::<proxy_name_>

Ex. https://<your_cluster>.wavefront.com/api/spy/points?wavefrontSource=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?wavefrontSource=proxy::skybridge&usage

Spying on points with
	metric (prefix): 
	host (prefix): 
	pointTagKey(s): 
at a sampling rate of: 1.0%

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"~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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