Technologies/Traefik/traefik.service.requests.total
TraefikTraefikMetric

traefik.service.requests.total

Total requests to service
Dimensions:None
Available on:PrometheusPrometheus (1)DatadogDatadog (1)Native (1)
Interface Metrics (3)
PrometheusPrometheus
Total number of requests sent to a service
Dimensions:None
DatadogDatadog
Total count of requests received by service
Dimensions:None
Native
Total number of requests processed by service
Dimensions:None
Sources
traefik_service_requests_totaldoc.traefik.io
traefik.service.requests.totaldocs.datadoghq.com
traefik.service.requests.totaldoc.traefik.io

Technical Annotations (25)

Configuration Parameters (6)
traefik.http.services.<service>.loadbalancer.server.portrecommended: 8080
Must be set explicitly when container exposes multiple ports
entrypoints.<name>.transport.respondingtimeouts.readtimeoutrecommended: 60-300
Maximum seconds for reading entire request including body; 0 disables
serversTransport.forwardingTimeouts.idleConnTimeoutrecommended: shorter than upstream timeout (e.g., 3s if upstream is 5s)
Controls how long Traefik keeps idle connections to upstream servers open
serversTransport.maxIdleConnsPerHostrecommended: default (not -1)
Setting to -1 disables keep-alive entirely, causing performance issues
retry.attemptsrecommended: 2
Fewer attempts reduce amplification during outages
retry.initialIntervalrecommended: 500ms
Longer interval spreads retry load over time
Error Signatures (5)
404 page not foundhttp status
502 Bad Gatewayhttp status
dial tcp [IP]:[port]: connect: connection refusedlog pattern
read: connection reset by peerlog pattern
502http status
CLI Commands (3)
docker exec -it traefik sh -lc 'wget -qO- http://127.0.0.1:8080/api/http/services | jq -r ".[] | select(.name==\"app-svc@docker\") | .loadBalancer.servers"'diagnostic
docker ps --format 'table {{.Names}}\t{{.Image}}\t{{.Status}}\t{{.Ports}}'diagnostic
kubectl logs -n traefik deployment/traefik | grep -i retrydiagnostic
Technical References (11)
Servicecomponentloadbalancer.server.portcomponentHTTP request timeoutconceptServersTransportcomponentforwardingTimeoutscomponentkeep-aliveprotocolpkg/middlewares/accesslogcomponentpkg/proxy/httputil/proxy.gofile pathErrorHandlerWithContextcomponentcircuit breaker middlewarecomponentexponential backoffconcept
Related Insights (7)
Auto-detected service port routes to wrong container port with multiple exposed portscritical
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Excessive retry rate indicates backend instabilitywarning
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Read timeout terminates slow uploads and large POST requestswarning
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Idle timeout mismatch between Traefik and upstream causes 502 errorscritical
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502 Bad Gateway errors lack failure details in access logswarning
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Retry storms overwhelm recovering backend servicescritical
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High retry rate indicates persistent backend failureswarning
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