From 1339b89a8b13ed3b72dfeeaf6a1ed9aacaecadcf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris O'Haver Date: Sat, 29 Feb 2020 02:07:49 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] explain drop metric (#3706) Signed-off-by: Chris O'Haver --- plugin/cache/README.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/plugin/cache/README.md b/plugin/cache/README.md index 14636e861..b961b04a5 100644 --- a/plugin/cache/README.md +++ b/plugin/cache/README.md @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ If monitoring is enabled (via the *prometheus* plugin) then the following metric * `coredns_cache_size{server, type}` - Total elements in the cache by cache type. * `coredns_cache_hits_total{server, type}` - Counter of cache hits by cache type. * `coredns_cache_misses_total{server}` - Counter of cache misses. -* `coredns_cache_drops_total{server}` - Counter of dropped messages. +* `coredns_cache_drops_total{server}` - Counter of responses excluded from the cache due to request/response question name mismatch. * `coredns_cache_served_stale_total{server}` - Counter of requests served from stale cache entries. Cache types are either "denial" or "success". `Server` is the server handling the request, see the