Policy and Rule Execution
Metric Name
kyverno_policy_results_total
Metric Value
Counter - An only-increasing integer representing the number of results/executions associated with the rule corresponding to a metric sample.
Use cases
- The admin wants to track the count of the incoming resource requests which resulted in PASS status of any cluster policy since the last 24 hrs.
- The cluster admin wants to track the count of all the Deployment objects, which when created, violated a specific cluster policy named
sample-cluster-policy - The cluster admin wants to track the count of all the resources belonging to the default namespace in the last 1 hr which were blocked from being created because those resource requests violated some Kyverno Policy.
- An end user has a dedicated namespace and in it, he/she is creating a big number of Kubernetes resources in one go and wants to track how many of them are violating the existing cluster policies.
Filter Labels
| Label | Allowed Values | Description |
|---|---|---|
| policy_validation_mode | “enforce”, “audit” | PolicyValidationFailure action of the rule’s parent policy |
| policy_type | “cluster”, “namespaced” | Kind of the rule’s parent policy. Kind: ClusterPolicy or Kind: Policy |
| policy_background_mode | “true”, “false” | Policy’s set background mode |
| policy_name | Name of the policy to which the rule belongs | |
| policy_namespace | Namespace in which this Policy resides (only for policies with kind: Policy), For ClusterPolicies, this field will be “-” | |
| 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. |
| rule_name | Name of the rule, in the above policy, which is evaluating in this situation | |
| rule_result | “PASS”, “FAIL” | Result of the rule’s execution |
| rule_type | “validate”, “mutate”, “generate” | Rule’s behavior type. For rule_execution_cause=“background_scan”, it will always be “validate” as background scans only run validate rules |
| rule_execution_cause | “admission_request”, “background_scan” | Identifies whether the rule is executing in response to an admission request or a periodic background scan. In background scans, only validate rules whereas in the case of admission requests, all validate/mutate/generate rules run |
Useful Queries
Tracking the total number of rules which failed in the 24 hours in “default” namespace grouped by their rule types (validate, mutate, generate):
sum(increase(kyverno_policy_results_total{policy_namespace="default", rule_result="fail"}[24h])) by (rule_type)Tracking the per-minute rate of the number of rule executions triggered by incoming Pod requests over the cluster:
rate(kyverno_policy_results_total{resource_kind="Pod", rule_execution_cause="admission_request"}[1m])*60Tracking the total number of policies over the cluster running as a part of background scans over the last 2 hours:
count(increase(kyverno_policy_results_total{rule_execution_cause="background_scan"}[2h]) by (policy_name))