Admission Requests Counts

This metric can be used to track the number of admission requests which were triggered as a part of Kyverno.

Metric Name

kyverno_admission_requests_total

Metric Value

Counter - An only-increasing integer representing the count of admission requests associated with a sample.

Use cases

The cluster admin wants to know how many admission requests were triggered in the last 24h hence, know how active Kyverno has been.
The cluster admin wants to know what percentage of total incoming admission requests to Kyverno correspond to the incoming resource creations.

Label	Allowed Values	Description
resource_kind	“Pod”, “Deployment”, “StatefulSet”, “ReplicaSet”, etc.	Kind of this resource
resource_namespace		Namespace in which this resource lies
resource_request_operation	“create”, “update”, “delete”	If the requested resource is being created, updated, or deleted.

Total admission requests triggered in the last 24h:
sum(increase(kyverno_admission_requests_total{}[24h]))
Percentage of total incoming admission requests corresponding to resource creations:
sum(kyverno_admission_requests_total{resource_request_operation="create"})/sum(kyverno_admission_requests_total{})