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+## Kube-batch Monitoring
+
+## Introduction
+Currently users can leverage controller logs and job events to monitor kube-batch. While useful for debugging, none of this options is particularly practical for monitoring kube-batch behaviour over time. There's also requirement like to monitor kube-batch in one view to resolve critical performance issue in time [#427](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kube-batch/issues/427).
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+This document describes metrics we want to add into kube-batch to better monitor performance.
+
+
+## Metrics
+In order to support metrics, kube-batch needs to expose a metrics endpoint which can provide golang process metrics like number of goroutines, gc duration, cpu and memory usage, etc as well as kube-batch custom metrics related to time taken by plugins or actions. 
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+All the metrics are prefixed with `kube_batch_`. 
+
+### kube-batch execution
+This metrics track execution of plugins and actions of kube-batch loop.
+
+| Metric name | Metric type | Labels | Description |
+| ----------- | ----------- | ------ | ----------- |
+| e2e_scheduling_latency | histogram |  | E2e scheduling latency in seconds |
+| plugin_latency | histogram | `plugin`=<plugin_name> | Schedule latency for plugin |
+| action_latency | histogram | `action`=<action_name> | Schedule latency for action |
+| task_latency | histogram | `job`=<job_id> `task`=<task_id> | Schedule latency for each task |
+
+
+### kube-batch operations
+This metrics describe internal state of kube-batch.
+
+| Metric name | Metric type | Labels | Description |
+| ----------- | ----------- | ------ | ----------- |
+| pod_schedule_errors | Counter |  | The number of kube-batch failed due to an error |
+| pod_schedule_successes | Counter | | The number of kube-batch success in scheduling a job |
+| pod_preemption_victims | Counter | | Number of selected preemption victims |
+| total_preemption_attempts | Counter |  | Total preemption attempts in the cluster till now |
+| unschedule_task_count | Counter | `job`=<job_id> | The number of tasks failed to schedule |
+| unschedule_job_counts | Counter | | The number of job failed to schedule in each iteration |
+| job_retry_counts | Counter | `job`=<job_id> | The number of retry times of one job |
+
+
+### kube-batch Liveness
+Healthcheck last time of kube-batch activity and timeout
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