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Metrics for Azure Spring Apps

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The Basic, Standard, and Enterprise plans will be deprecated starting from mid-March, 2025, with a 3 year retirement period. We recommend transitioning to Azure Container Apps. For more information, see the Azure Spring Apps retirement announcement.

The Standard consumption and dedicated plan will be deprecated starting September 30, 2024, with a complete shutdown after six months. We recommend transitioning to Azure Container Apps. For more information, see Migrate Azure Spring Apps Standard consumption and dedicated plan to Azure Container Apps.

This article applies to: ✅ Basic/Standard ✅ Enterprise

Azure Metrics explorer is a component of the Microsoft Azure portal that allows plotting charts, visually correlating trends, and investigating spikes and dips in metrics. Use the metrics explorer to investigate the health and utilization of your resources.

In an Azure Spring Apps instance, you can view metrics on the following pages:

  • The application overview page, which shows quick status charts. To view this page, select Apps from the navigation pane, and then select an app.

  • The common metrics page, which shows common metrics available to all apps in the Azure Spring Apps instance. For the Enterprise plan, it also shows common metrics for Tanzu Spring Cloud Gateway. To view this page, select Metrics from the navigation pane. You can build your own charts in the common metrics page and pin them to your Dashboard.

Screenshot of the Azure portal showing the Azure Spring Apps Overview page with Apps and Metrics highlighted in the navigation pane.

Application overview page

Select Apps in the navigation pane and then select an app from the list. The app overview page presents metrics charts that enable you to perform a quick status check of your application.

Screenshot of the Azure portal showing the overview page for an application with the time period selector highlighted.

Azure Spring Apps provides these five charts with metrics that are updated every minute:

  • Http Server Errors: Error count for HTTP requests to your app
  • Data In: Bytes received by your app
  • Data Out: Bytes sent by your app
  • Requests: Requests received by your app
  • Average Response Time: Average response time from your app

For the chart, you can select a time range from one hour to seven days.

Common metrics page

Select Metrics in the navigation pane to access common metrics. Select a metric to use from the Metric dropdown.

Screenshot of the Azure portal showing the Azure Spring Apps Metrics page with the Metric dropdown menu open.

For metric details, see the User metric options section.

Next, select the aggregation type for each metric:

Screenshot of the Azure portal showing the Azure Spring Apps Metrics page with the Aggregation dropdown menu open.

The aggregation type indicates how to aggregate metric points in the chart by time. There's one raw metric point every minute, and the pre-aggregation type within a minute is pre-defined by metrics type.

  • Sum: Sum all values as target output.
  • Average: Use the Average value in the period as target output.
  • Max/Min: Use the Max/Min value in the period as target output.

The time range can also be adjusted from last 30 minutes to last 30 days or a custom time range.

Screenshot of the Azure portal showing the Azure Spring Apps Metrics page with the chart time range options highlighted.

The default view includes all of an Azure Spring Apps service's application's metrics together. Metrics of one app or instance can be filtered in the display. Select Add filter, set the property to App, and select the target application you want to monitor in the Values text box.

You can use two kinds of filters (properties):

  • App: filter by app name
  • Instance: filter by app instance
  • Deployment: filter by deployment name

Screenshot of the Azure portal showing the Azure Spring Apps Metrics page with a chart selected and the Add filter controls highlighted.

You can also use the Apply splitting option, which draws multiple lines for one app:

Screenshot of the Azure portal showing the Azure Spring Apps Metrics page with a chart selected and the Apply splitting option highlighted. :

Tip

You can build your own charts on the metrics page and pin them to your Dashboard. Start by naming your chart. Next, select Pin to dashboard in the top right corner. You can now check on your application at your Portal Dashboard.

User metrics options

Note

For Spring Boot applications, to see metrics from Spring Boot Actuator, add the spring-boot-starter-actuator dependency. For more information, see the Add actuator dependency section of Manage and monitor app with Spring Boot Actuator.

The following tables show the available metrics and details.

Error

Name Spring Boot Actuator metric name Unit Description
tomcat.global.error tomcat.global.error Count Number of errors that occurred in processed requests.

Performance

Name Spring Boot Actuator metric name Unit Description
system.cpu.usage system.cpu.usage Percent [Obsolete] Recent CPU usage for the whole system. This metric is deprecated because the accuracy isn't reliable. Use App CPU Usage instead. The value is a double in the [0.0,1.0] interval. A value of 0.0 means that all CPUs were idle during the recent period of time observed, while a value of 1.0 means that all CPUs were actively running 100% of the time during the recent period being observed.
process.cpu.usage App CPU Usage Percentage Percent [Obsolete] Recent CPU usage for the Java Virtual Machine process. The metric is deprecated because the accuracy isn't reliable. Use App CPU Usage instead. The value is a double in the [0.0,1.0] interval. A value of 0.0 means that none of the CPUs were running threads from the JVM process during the recent period of time observed, while a value of 1.0 means that all CPUs were actively running threads from the JVM 100% of the time during the recent period being observed. Threads from the JVM include the application threads as well as the JVM internal threads.
App CPU Usage Percent The ratio of CPU time used in cores to the total CPU limit. It represents the proportion of CPU resources consumed by a k8s container, mainly for the JVM process. This value is a double in the [0.0,1.0] interval. A value of 0.0 means that none of the CPUs were running threads from the JVM process during the recent period of time observed, while a value of 1.0 means that all CPUs were actively running threads from the JVM 100% of the time during the recent period being observed. Threads from the JVM include the application threads as well as the JVM internal threads.
App CPU Usage (Deprecated) Percent Deprecated metric of App CPU Usage. Use the new App CPU Usage metric instead.
App Memory Usage Percent Recent memory usage of the JVM process against the memory allocated to this app. This value is a double in the [0.0,1.0] interval. A value of 0.0 means that none of the memory was allocated by threads from the JVM process during the recent period of time observed, while a value of 1.0 means that all memory was allocated by threads from the JVM 100% of the time during the recent period being observed. Threads from the JVM include the application threads as well as the JVM internal threads.
jvm.memory.committed jvm.memory.committed Bytes Represents the amount of memory that is guaranteed to be available for use by the JVM. The JVM may release memory to the system and committed could be less than init. committed will always be greater than or equal to used.
jvm.memory.used jvm.memory.used Bytes Represents the amount of memory currently used in bytes.
jvm.memory.max jvm.memory.max Bytes Represents the maximum amount of memory that can be used for memory management. The amount of used and committed memory will always be less than or equal to max if max is defined. A memory allocation may fail if it attempts to increase the used memory such that used > committed even if used <= max would still be true (for example, when the system is low on virtual memory).
jvm.gc.max.data.size jvm.gc.max.data.size Bytes The peak memory usage of the old generation memory pool since the Java virtual machine was started.
jvm.gc.live.data.size jvm.gc.live.data.size Bytes Size of old generation memory pool after a full garbage collection (GC).
jvm.gc.memory.promoted jvm.gc.memory.promoted Bytes Count of positive increases in the size of the old generation memory pool before GC to after GC.
jvm.gc.memory.allocated jvm.gc.memory.allocated Bytes Incremented for an increase in the size of the young generation memory pool after one GC to before the next.
jvm.gc.pause.total.count jvm.gc.pause (total-count) Count Total GC count after this JMV started, including Young and Old GC.
jvm.gc.pause.total.time jvm.gc.pause (total-time) Milliseconds Total GC time consumed after this JMV started, including Young and Old GC.

Performance (.NET)

Name Spring Boot Actuator metric name Unit Description
CPU usage cpu-usage Percent The percent of the process's CPU usage relative to all of the system CPU resources [0-100].
Working set working-set Megabytes Amount of working set used by the process.
GC heap size gc-heap-size Megabytes Total heap size reported by the garbage collector.
Gen 0 GC count gen-0-gc-count Count Number of Generation 0 garbage collections per second.
Gen 1 GC count gen-1-gc-count Count Number of Generation 1 garbage collections per second.
Gen 2 GC count gen-2-gc-count Count Number of Generation 2 garbage collections per second.
Time in GC timein-gc Percent The percent of time in garbage collection since the last garbage collection.
Gen 0 heap size gen-0-size Bytes Generation 0 heap size.
Gen 1 heap size gen-1-size Bytes Generation 1 heap size.
Gen 2 heap size gen-2-size Bytes Generation 2 heap size.
LOH heap size loh-size Bytes Large Object Heap heap size.
Allocation rate alloc-rate Bytes Number of bytes allocated per second.
Assembly count assembly-count Count Number of assemblies loaded.
Exception count exception-count Count Number of exceptions per second.
Thread pool thread count threadpool-thread-count Count Number of thread pool threads.
Monitor lock contention count monitor-lock-contention-count Count The number of times per second there was contention when trying to take a monitor's lock.
Thread pool queue length threadpool-queue-length Count Thread pool work items queue length.
Thread pool completed items count threadpool-completed-items-count Count Thread pool completed work items count.
Active timers count active-timer-count Count The number of timers that are currently active. An active timer is one that is registered to tick at some point in the future, and has not yet been canceled.

For more information, see Investigate performance counters (dotnet-counters).

Request

Name Spring Boot Actuator metric name Unit Description
tomcat.global.sent tomcat.global.sent Bytes Amount of data Tomcat web server sent.
tomcat.global.received tomcat.global.received Bytes Amount of data Tomcat web server received.
tomcat.global.request.total.count tomcat.global.request (total-count) Count Total count of Tomcat web server processed requests.
tomcat.global.request.max tomcat.global.request.max Milliseconds Maximum time of Tomcat web server to process a request.

Request (.NET)

Name Spring Boot Actuator metric name Unit Description
Requests per second requests-per-second Count Request rate.
Total requests total-requests Count Total number of requests.
Current requests current-requests Count Number of current requests.
Failed requests failed-requests Count Number of failed requests.

For more information, see Investigate performance counters (dotnet-counters).

Session

Name Spring Boot Actuator metric name Unit Description
tomcat.sessions.active.max tomcat.sessions.active.max Count Maximum number of sessions that have been active at the same time.
tomcat.sessions.alive.max tomcat.sessions.alive.max Milliseconds Longest time (in seconds) that an expired session was alive.
tomcat.sessions.created tomcat.sessions.created Count Number of sessions that have been created.
tomcat.sessions.expired tomcat.sessions.expired Count Number of sessions that have expired.
tomcat.sessions.rejected tomcat.sessions.rejected Count Number of sessions that were not created because the maximum number of active sessions reached.
tomcat.sessions.active.current tomcat.sessions.active.current Count Tomcat Session Active Count.

Ingress

Display name Azure metric name Unit Description
Bytes Received IngressBytesReceived Bytes Count of bytes received by Azure Spring Apps from the clients.
Bytes Sent IngressBytesSent Bytes Count of bytes sent by Azure Spring Apps to the clients.
Requests IngressRequests Count Count of requests by Azure Spring Apps from the clients.
Failed Requests IngressFailedRequests Count Count of failed requests by Azure Spring Apps from the clients.
Response Status IngressResponseStatus Count HTTP response status returned by Azure Spring Apps. The response status code distribution can be further categorized to show responses in 2xx, 3xx, 4xx, and 5xx categories.
Response Time IngressResponseTime Seconds Http response time return by Azure Spring Apps.
Throughput In (bytes/s) IngressBytesReceivedRate BytesPerSecond Bytes received per second by Azure Spring Apps from the clients.
Throughput Out (bytes/s) IngressBytesSentRate BytesPerSecond Bytes sent per second by Azure Spring Apps to the clients.

Gateway

The following table applies to the Tanzu Spring Cloud Gateway in Enterprise plan only.

Display name Azure metric name Unit Description
jvm.gc.live.data.size GatewayJvmGcLiveDataSizeBytes Bytes Size of old generation memory pool after a full GC.
jvm.gc.max.data.size GatewayJvmGcMaxDataSizeBytes Bytes Max size of old generation memory pool.
jvm.gc.memory.promoted GatewayJvmGcMemoryPromotedBytesTotal Bytes Count of positive increases in the size of the old generation memory pool before GC to after GC.
jvm.gc.pause.max.time GatewayJvmGcPauseSecondsMax Seconds GC Pause Max Time.
jvm.gc.pause.total.count GatewayJvmGcPauseSecondsCount Count GC Pause Count.
jvm.gc.pause.total.time GatewayJvmGcPauseSecondsSum Seconds GC Pause Total Time.
jvm.memory.committed GatewayJvmMemoryCommittedBytes Bytes Memory assigned to JVM in bytes.
jvm.memory.used GatewayJvmMemoryUsedBytes Bytes Memory Used in bytes.
Max time of requests GatewayHttpServerRequestsMilliSecondsMax Milliseconds The max time of requests.
process.cpu.usage GatewayProcessCpuUsage Percent The recent CPU usage for the JVM process.
Request count GatewayHttpServerRequestsSecondsCount Count The number of requests.
system.cpu.usage GatewaySystemCpuUsage Percent The recent CPU usage for the whole system.
Throttled requests count GatewayRatelimitThrottledCount Count The count of the throttled requests.

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