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Application Real-Time Monitoring Service:Why are Kubelet and API server metrics missing from my Grafana dashboard?

Last Updated:Mar 11, 2026

Application Real-Time Monitoring Service (ARMS) Prometheus monitoring collects only a fixed set of basic metrics at no extra cost. If your custom Grafana dashboard queries metrics outside this set, those panels return no data.

To determine whether a missing metric is collected, check the following tables. The 211 collected basic metrics are grouped by Kubernetes component.

Kubelet metrics

Volume stats, pod worker latency, PLEG relist duration, node identity, and certificate management metrics from the Kubelet node agent.

No.Metric
8kubelet_pleg_relist_duration_seconds_bucket
9kubelet_node_name
10kubelet_pod_worker_duration_seconds_bucket
11kubelet_certificate_manager_client_ttl_seconds
12kubelet_certificate_manager_server_ttl_seconds
13kubelet_certificate_manager_client_expiration_renew_errors
14kubelet_server_expiration_renew_errors
75kubelet_volume_stats_used_bytes
76kubelet_volume_stats_inodes_used
77kubelet_volume_stats_inodes_free
78kubelet_volume_stats_inodes
79kubelet_volume_stats_capacity_bytes
80kubelet_volume_stats_available_bytes

API server metrics

Request totals, latency, in-flight request counts, dropped requests, long-running request gauges, and client certificate expiration metrics for the Kubernetes API server.

No.Metric
15apiserver_client_certificate_expiration_seconds_count
16apiserver_client_certificate_expiration_seconds_bucket
36apiserver_dropped_requests_total
53apiserver_request_latencies_summary
109apiserver_current_inflight_requests
110apiserver_longrunning_gauge
114apiserver_request_total
115apiserver_request_count
116apiserver_request_duration_seconds_bucket

API aggregator metrics

Unavailable API service counts from the aggregation layer.

No.Metric
17aggregator_unavailable_apiservice_count
18aggregator_unavailable_apiservice

Scheduler metrics

Pod scheduling attempts, pending pods, and scheduler cache size.

No.Metric
3scheduler_pod_scheduling_attempts_bucket
4scheduler_pending_pods
5scheduler_scheduler_cache_size

etcd metrics

Request duration, object counts, disk commit latency, leader changes, and database size metrics for etcd.

No.Metric
40etcd_request_duration_seconds_count
41etcd_request_duration_seconds_sum
42etcd_object_counts
43etcd_debugging_mvcc_keys_total
44etcd_disk_backend_commit_duration_seconds_bucket
45etcd_server_leader_changes_seen_total
46etcd_server_has_leader
47etcd_debugging_mvcc_db_total_size_in_bytes

Kubernetes state metrics

Pod, Deployment, Node, DaemonSet, StatefulSet, Job, HPA, Service, PersistentVolume, and ResourceQuota state metrics from kube-state-metrics.

No.Metric
1kube_pod_container_status_last_terminated_reason
6kube_node_spec_taint
7kube_node_status_capacity_pods
26kube_resourcequota
27kube_daemonset_status_current_number_scheduled
28kube_daemonset_status_desired_number_scheduled
29kube_daemonset_status_number_misscheduled
30kube_daemonset_updated_number_scheduled
31kube_daemonset_status_number_available
32kube_job_spec_completions
33kube_job_status_succeeded
34kube_job_failed
35kube_persistentvolume_status_phase
54kube_hpa_status_condition
55kube_hpa_labels
56kube_hpa_metadata_generation
57kube_resourcequota
58kube_pod_container_status_waiting_reason
68kube_pod_labels
69kube_deployment_labels
70kube_node_labels
71kube_pod_status_ready
72kube_node_status_capacity
73kube_node_status_condition
74kube_pod_container_resource_limits
81kube_pod_container_resource_limits
86kube_node_labels
87kube_deployment_status_replicas_unavailable
88kube_job_status_failed
89kube_job_status_active
90kube_job_status_succeeded
91kube_pod_container_status_restarts
92kube_pod_container_status_terminated
93kube_pod_container_status_waiting
94kube_pod_container_status_running
95kube_node_spec_unschedulable
96kube_node_status_condition
97kube_node_info
98kube_node_status_allocatable_pods
100kube_deployment_status_replicas_unavailable
117kube_pod_container_resource_limits_memory_bytes
118kube_pod_container_resource_limits_cpu_cores
122kube_service_info
123kube_pod_status_phase
125kube_pod_labels
126kube_deployment_spec_strategy_rollingupdate_max_unavailable
127kube_deployment_metadata_generation
128kube_deployment_status_observed_generation
129kube_deployment_spec_replicas
130kube_deployment_status_replicas_available
131kube_deployment_spec_replicas
132kube_deployment_status_replicas_updated
133kube_deployment_created
134kube_node_status_allocatable_memory_bytes
135kube_node_status_allocatable_cpu_cores
136kube_node_status_capacity_memory_bytes
137kube_node_status_capacity_cpu_cores
138kube_node_status_condition
142kube_pod_container_resource_requests_memory_bytes
143kube_pod_container_resource_requests_cpu_cores
144kube_hpa_spec_max_replicas
145kube_hpa_spec_min_replicas
146kube_hpa_status_desired_replicas
147kube_hpa_status_current_replicas
148kube_pod_container_status_restarts_total
154kube_pod_info
155kube_pod_container_info
158kube_daemonset_created
159kube_statefulset_created
160kube_deployment_created
161kube_deployment_status_replicas
162kube_statefulset_replicas
163kube_daemonset_status_desired_number_scheduled
164kube_deployment_status_replicas_available
165kube_statefulset_status_replicas
166kube_daemonset_status_number_ready
167kube_pod_container_resource_requests_cpu_cores
168kube_pod_container_resource_requests_memory_bytes
209kube_pod_owner
210kube_deployment_metadata_generation
211kube_pod_deletion_timestamp

Container metrics

CPU usage, memory usage, network I/O, filesystem I/O, and GPU accelerator metrics for containers.

No.Metric
37container_fs_inodes_total
38container_fs_inodes_free
59container_cpu_load_average_10s
60container_network_receive_errors_total
61container_network_receive_packets_dropped_total
62container_network_transmit_errors_total
63container_network_transmit_packets_dropped_total
64container_memory_max_usage_bytes
65container_memory_cache
66container_memory_swap
67container_memory_failcnt
83container_fs_writes_bytes_total
84container_fs_reads_bytes_total
85container_memory_usage_bytes
105container_network_transmit_bytes_total
106container_network_receive_bytes_total
111container_memory_rss
112container_spec_memory_limit_bytes
113container_network_transmit_bytes_total
119container_accelerator_memory_total_bytes
120container_accelerator_memory_used_bytes
121container_accelerator_duty_cycle
139container_cpu_cfs_throttled_periods_total
140container_cpu_cfs_periods_total
141container_cpu_cfs_throttled_seconds_total
149container_network_receive_bytes_total
150container_memory_working_set_bytes
152container_cpu_usage_seconds_total
156container_fs_usage_bytes
157container_fs_limit_bytes
205container_spec_cpu_quota
206container_network_transmit_packets_total
207container_fs_write_seconds_total
208container_fs_read_seconds_total

Node metrics

CPU, memory, disk I/O, network, filesystem, and system load metrics from the node exporter.

No.Metric
20node_filesystem_readonly
21node_network_receive_errs_total
22node_network_transmit_errs_total
23node_timex_offset_seconds
24node_timex_sync_status
25node_network_up
82node_filesystem_usage
99node_filesystem_size
101node_filesystem_free
102node_uname_info
124node_cpu_seconds_total
169node_boot_time_seconds
170node_memory_MemAvailable_bytes
171node_memory_MemTotal_bytes
172node_memory_MemFree_bytes
173node_memory_Buffers_bytes
174node_memory_Cached_bytes
175node_filefd_allocated
176node_filesystem_avail_bytes
177node_filesystem_size_bytes
178node_filesystem_free_bytes
179node_load15
180node_load1
181node_load5
182node_disk_io_time_seconds_total
183node_disk_read_time_seconds_total
184node_disk_write_time_seconds_total
185node_disk_reads_completed_total
186node_disk_writes_completed_total
187node_disk_io_now
188node_disk_read_bytes_total
189node_disk_written_bytes_total
190node_disk_io_time_weighted_seconds_total
191node_network_receive_bytes_total
192node_network_transmit_bytes_total
193node_netstat_Tcp_CurrEstab
194node_sockstat_TCP_tw
195node_netstat_Tcp_ActiveOpens
196node_netstat_Tcp_PassiveOpens
197node_sockstat_TCP_alloc
198node_sockstat_TCP_inuse
199node_exporter_build_info

NVIDIA GPU metrics

GPU temperature, memory usage, power draw, and duty cycle metrics.

No.Metric
39nvidia_gpu_num_devices
48nvidia_gpu_temperature_celsius
49nvidia_gpu_memory_used_bytes
50nvidia_gpu_memory_total_bytes
51nvidia_gpu_power_usage_milliwatts
52nvidia_gpu_duty_cycle

Machine-level metrics

Physical CPU core count and total memory capacity.

No.Metric
151machine_memory_bytes
153machine_cpu_cores

REST client and HTTP metrics

REST client request totals and HTTP request/response size and duration metrics.

No.Metric
2rest_client_requests_total
200http_request_duration_microseconds
201http_response_size_bytes
202http_requests_total
203http_request_size_bytes
204rest_client_requests_total

Go runtime and process metrics

Garbage collection duration, goroutine count, resident memory, and CPU usage for Go-based components.

No.Metric
103go_gc_duration_seconds
104go_goroutines
107process_resident_memory_bytes
108process_cpu_seconds_total

Kubernetes build information

Kubernetes version and build metadata.

No.Metric
19kubernetes_build_info