Technologies/Varnish/varnish_backend_busy
VarnishVarnishMetric

varnish_backend_busy

Maximum number of connections to a given backend.
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Available on:DatadogDatadog (1)
Interface Metrics (1)
DatadogDatadog
Maximum number of connections to a given backend.
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Related Insights (1)
Session Drop Rate Indicates Connection Queue Exhaustioncritical

Elevated varnish_sess_drop signals that Varnish is rejecting connections due to worker thread exhaustion or queue overflow, often caused by slow backend responses keeping workers occupied.