Important metrics

Vault and Consul provide reference documentation for all of the metrics they provide (Vault here and Consul here). Those pages list and describe every metric that is available, but they don't do a good job of explaining which ones are most important to monitor, why they're important, or what thresholds you might want to set for alerts.

In this section, we try to demystify the Vault and Consul telemetry a bit, and tell you what's most important to keep an eye on.

• Vault server metrics
• Consul server metrics

Now you're ready to start building dashboards to display these important metrics, configuring alerts on them, or running ad-hoc queries against InfluxDB. If you'd like to try some pre-configured dashboards that follow the best practices outlined in this guide, continue here.