Technologies/CoreDNS/coredns_request_time_seconds
CoreDNSCoreDNSMetric

coredns_request_time_seconds

[OpenMetrics V2] sample duration to process each query
Dimensions:None
Available on:DatadogDatadog (1)
Interface Metrics (1)
DatadogDatadog
[OpenMetrics V2] sample duration to process each query
Dimensions:None
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