Admission Requests Count

Metric Name(s)

• kyverno_admission_requests_total

Metric Value

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

Metric Labels

Label	Allowed Values	Description
request_allowed	”true”, “false”	If the admission review was accepeted or rejected.
request_webhook	”ValidatingWebhookConfiguration”, “MutatingWebhookConfiguration”	Type of webhook processing the admission review.
resource_kind	”Pod”, “Deployment”, “StatefulSet”, “ReplicaSet”, etc.	Kind of this resource
resource_namespace		Namespace in which this resource lives
resource_request_operation	”create”, “update”, “delete”	If the requested resource is being created, updated, or deleted.

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.

Useful Queries

• 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{})