Delphi Monitoring metric reference

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Updated at May 26, 2025

This section describes Cloud DNS metrics delivered to Monitoring.

The name label contains the metric name.

All Cloud DNS metrics share the service=dns label.

Service metrics

Name
Type, units
Description
network_requests
DGAUGE, requests per second
Total requests from a network per second (RPS) for each request type.
Labels:
  • network: Network ID or name.
  • request_type: Type of the request. It can be either authoritative (for requests with a response from Cloud DNS) or forward (for requests redirected to an external resolver).
  • resource_type: Resource type, which is always network.
  • response_status: Response status, which can be noerror, servfail, nxdomain, or other.
zone_requests
DGAUGE, requests per second
Total requests to zone records per second (RPS) for all clients. For public zones, this applies to all users; for private zones, this applies to users from peered networks.
Labels:
  • resource_type: Resource type, which is always zone.
  • response_status: Response status, which can be noerror, servfail, nxdomain, or other.
  • zone: Zone ID or name.