Query Pixie data | New Relic Documentation

Auto-telemetry with Pixie pulls data from the Pixie Cloud API and sends it to the New Relic OpenTelemetry endpoint. You can build your own charts and query your Auto-telemetry with Pixie data using the query builder and the NerdGraph API.

Find out more about getting started with Auto-telemetry with Pixie here.

Metrics and specifications

HTTP metrics

Query for duration of inbound HTTP request. For example:

FROM Metric SELECT average(http.server.duration)
FACET service.name
WHERE instrumentation.provider='pixie'

Event type	Metric
Metric name	`http.server.duration`
Spec	OpenTelemetry HTTP metric spec
Description	Measures the duration of the inbound HTTP request.
OTEL data type	`MetricDataTypeDoubleSummary` with `min(quantile=0)` and `max(quantile=1)`
Unit	milliseconds
Required attributes	`service.name`
Static attributes	`instrumentation.provider` = pixie
HTTP attributes	`http.status_code`
Entity attributes	`service.instance.id` `k8s.cluster.name` `k8s.namespace.name` `k8s.pod.name` `k8s.container.name`

JVM metrics

Query to measure the time spent in a given JVM garbage collectors in milliseconds. For example:

FROM Metric SELECT average(runtime.jvm.gc.collection) FACET service.name, gc
WHERE instrumentation.provider='pixie'

Event type	Metric
Metric name	`runtime.jvm.gc.collection`
Spec	opentelemetry.jvm.gc.collection
Description	Time spent in a given JVM garbage collector in milliseconds.
Unit	milliseconds
Required attributes	`service.name`
Static attributes	`instrumentation.provider = pixie`
JVM attributes	gc = `young\|full`
Entity attributes	`service.instance.id` `k8s.cluster.name` `k8s.namespace.name` `k8s.pod.name` `k8s.container.name`

Query to find out the number of bytes in a given JVM memory area. For example:

FROM Metric SELECT average(runtime.jvm.memory.area)
FACET service.name
WHERE type='used' AND instrumentation.provider='pixie'

Event type	Metric
Metric name	`runtime.jvm.memory.area`
Spec	opentelemetry-java-instrumentation
Description	Bytes of a given JVM memory area.
Unit	bytes
Required attributes	`service.name`
Static attributes	`instrumentation.provider = pixie`
JVM attributes	type = `used\|total\|max` area = `heap`
Entity attributes	`service.instance.id` `k8s.cluster.name` `k8s.namespace.name` `k8s.pod.name` `k8s.container.name`

HTTP server span

Example query:

FROM Span SELECT uniques(name)
WHERE span.kind='server'
AND instrumentation.provider='pixie'
AND service.name='orders'

Spec	Semantic conventions for HTTP spans
Event type	Span
Required attributes	name = `normalized HTTP path` `service.name` `trace.id` `span.id`
Static attributes	`span.kind = server` `instrumentation.provider = pixie`
HTTP attributes	`http.host` `http.method` `http.path` `http.status_code` `http.url` `http.user_agent`