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/usr/bin/kube-metrics-adapter

General purpose metrics adapter for Kubernetes HPA metrics

From kube-metrics-adapter 0.2.9-r6 (os), captured 2026-11-05 by running kube-metrics-adapter --help (exit 0). permalink

Also provided by 2 other package versions
Launch the custom metrics API adapter server

Usage:
   [flags]

Flags:
      --additional-prometheus-server stringToString              additional prometheus servers that can be used using the 'prometheus-server-alias' annotation. Format is <name>=<url> (e.g. internal=http://prometheus-internal:9090), can be repeated (default [])
      --additional-prometheus-server-token-file stringToString   token files for additional prometheus servers. Format is <name>=<path>(e.g. internal=/var/run/secrets/tokens/name-token), can be repeated (default [])
      --authentication-kubeconfig string                         kubeconfig file pointing at the 'core' kubernetes server with enough rights to create tokenreviews.authentication.k8s.io.
      --authentication-skip-lookup                               If false, the authentication-kubeconfig will be used to lookup missing authentication configuration from the cluster.
      --authentication-token-webhook-cache-ttl duration          The duration to cache responses from the webhook token authenticator. (default 10s)
      --authentication-tolerate-lookup-failure                   If true, failures to look up missing authentication configuration from the cluster are not considered fatal. Note that this can result in authentication that treats all requests as anonymous.
      --authorization-always-allow-paths strings                 A list of HTTP paths to skip during authorization, i.e. these are authorized without contacting the 'core' kubernetes server. (default [/healthz,/readyz,/livez])
      --authorization-kubeconfig string                          kubeconfig file pointing at the 'core' kubernetes server with enough rights to create subjectaccessreviews.authorization.k8s.io.
      --authorization-webhook-cache-authorized-ttl duration      The duration to cache 'authorized' responses from the webhook authorizer. (default 10s)
      --authorization-webhook-cache-unauthorized-ttl duration    The duration to cache 'unauthorized' responses from the webhook authorizer. (default 10s)
      --aws-external-metrics                                     whether to enable AWS external metrics
      --aws-region strings                                       the AWS regions which should be monitored. eg: eu-central, eu-west-1
      --bind-address ip                                          The IP address on which to listen for the --secure-port port. The associated interface(s) must be reachable by the rest of the cluster, and by CLI/web clients. If blank or an unspecified address (0.0.0.0 or ::), all interfaces and IP address families will be used. (default 0.0.0.0)
      --cert-dir string                                          The directory where the TLS certs are located. If --tls-cert-file and --tls-private-key-file are provided, this flag will be ignored. (default "apiserver.local.config/certificates")
      --client-ca-file string                                    If set, any request presenting a client certificate signed by one of the authorities in the client-ca-file is authenticated with an identity corresponding to the CommonName of the client certificate.
      --contention-profiling                                     Enable block profiling, if profiling is enabled
      --credentials-dir string                                   path to the credentials dir where tokens are stored (default "/meta/credentials")
      --debug-socket-path string                                 Use an unprotected (no authn/authz) unix-domain socket for profiling with the given path
      --default-collection-interval duration                     Default interval used for collecting metrics. (default 1m0s)
      --disable-http2-serving                                    If true, HTTP2 serving will be disabled [default=false]
      --disregard-incompatible-hpas                              disregard failing to create collectors for incompatible HPAs
      --enable-custom-metrics-api                                whether to enable Custom Metrics API (default true)
      --enable-external-metrics-api                              whether to enable External Metrics API (default true)
      --enable-priority-and-fairness                             If true, replace the max-in-flight handler with an enhanced one that queues and dispatches with priority and fairness
      --external-rps-metric-name string                          The name of the metric that should be used to query prometheus for RPS per hostname. (default "skipper_serve_host_duration_seconds_count")
      --external-rps-metrics                                     whether to enable external RPS metric collector or not
      --garbage-collector-interval duration                      Interval to clean up metrics that are stored in in-memory cache. (default 10m0s)
  -h, --help                                                     help for this command
      --horizontal-pod-autoscaler-tolerance float                The HPA tolerance also configured in the HPA controller. (default 0.1)
      --http2-max-streams-per-connection int                     The limit that the server gives to clients for the maximum number of streams in an HTTP/2 connection. Zero means to use golang's default.
      --influxdb-address string                                  address of InfluxDB 2.x server to query (e.g. http://localhost:9999)
      --influxdb-org string                                      organization ID for InfluxDB 2.x server to query
      --influxdb-token string                                    token for InfluxDB 2.x server to query
      --kube-client-burst int                                    maximum burst for throttle to the Kubernetes API server (increase for large clusters, defaults to 10)
      --kube-client-qps float                                    maximum queries per second (QPS) to the Kubernetes API server (increase for large clusters), defaults to 5
      --lister-kubeconfig string                                 kubeconfig file pointing at the 'core' kubernetes server with enough rights to list any described objects
      --metrics-address string                                   The address where to serve prometheus metrics (default ":7979")
      --metrics-ttl duration                                     TTL for metrics that are stored in in-memory cache. (default 15m0s)
      --nakadi-endpoint string                                   url of Nakadi endpoint to for nakadi subscription stats
      --nakadi-token-name string                                 name of the token used to call nakadi subscription API (default "nakadi")
      --permit-address-sharing                                   If true, SO_REUSEADDR will be used when binding the port. This allows binding to wildcard IPs like 0.0.0.0 and specific IPs in parallel, and it avoids waiting for the kernel to release sockets in TIME_WAIT state. [default=false]
      --permit-port-sharing                                      If true, SO_REUSEPORT will be used when binding the port, which allows more than one instance to bind on the same address and port. [default=false]
      --profiling                                                Enable profiling via web interface host:port/debug/pprof/ (default true)
      --prometheus-server string                                 url of prometheus server to query
      --prometheus-server-token-file string                      path to file containing bearer token for prometheus server authentication
      --requestheader-allowed-names strings                      List of client certificate common names to allow to provide usernames in headers specified by --requestheader-username-headers. If empty, any client certificate validated by the authorities in --requestheader-client-ca-file is allowed.
      --requestheader-client-ca-file string                      Root certificate bundle to use to verify client certificates on incoming requests before trusting usernames in headers specified by --requestheader-username-headers. WARNING: generally do not depend on authorization being already done for incoming requests.
      --requestheader-extra-headers-prefix strings               List of request header prefixes to inspect. X-Remote-Extra- is suggested. (default [x-remote-extra-])
      --requestheader-group-headers strings                      List of request headers to inspect for groups. X-Remote-Group is suggested. (default [x-remote-group])
      --requestheader-uid-headers strings                        List of request headers to inspect for UIDs. X-Remote-Uid is suggested. Requires the RemoteRequestHeaderUID feature to be enabled.
      --requestheader-username-headers strings                   List of request headers to inspect for usernames. X-Remote-User is common. (default [x-remote-user])
      --resource-update-interval duration                        Interval at which HPA resources get updated. (default 30s)
      --scaling-schedule                                         whether to enable time-based ScalingSchedule metrics
      --scaling-schedule-default-scaling-window duration         Default rampup and rampdown window duration for ScalingSchedules (default 10m0s)
      --scaling-schedule-default-time-zone string                Default time zone to use for ScalingSchedules. (default "Europe/Berlin")
      --scaling-schedule-ramp-steps int                          Number of steps used to rampup and rampdown ScalingSchedules. It's used to guarantee won't avoid reaching the max scaling due to the 10% minimum change rule. (default 10)
      --secure-port int                                          The port on which to serve HTTPS with authentication and authorization. If 0, don't serve HTTPS at all. (default 443)
      --skipper-backends-annotation stringArray                  the annotation to get backend weights so that the returned metric can be weighted
      --skipper-ingress-metrics                                  whether to enable skipper ingress metrics
      --skipper-routegroup-metrics                               whether to enable skipper routegroup metrics
      --tls-cert-file string                                     File containing the default x509 Certificate for HTTPS. (CA cert, if any, concatenated after server cert). If HTTPS serving is enabled, and --tls-cert-file and --tls-private-key-file are not provided, a self-signed certificate and key are generated for the public address and saved to the directory specified by --cert-dir.
      --tls-cipher-suites strings                                Comma-separated list of cipher suites for the server. If omitted, the default Go cipher suites will be used.
                                                                 Preferred values: TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256, TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384, TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256, TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256, TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA, TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384, TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305, TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256, TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256, TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA, TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384, TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305, TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256.
                                                                 Insecure values: TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256, TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA, TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA, TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256, TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA, TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA, TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256, TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256, TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA, TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384, TLS_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA.
      --tls-min-version string                                   Minimum TLS version supported. Possible values: VersionTLS10, VersionTLS11, VersionTLS12, VersionTLS13
      --tls-private-key-file string                              File containing the default x509 private key matching --tls-cert-file.
      --tls-sni-cert-key namedCertKey                            A pair of x509 certificate and private key file paths, optionally suffixed with a list of domain patterns which are fully qualified domain names, possibly with prefixed wildcard segments. The domain patterns also allow IP addresses, but IPs should only be used if the apiserver has visibility to the IP address requested by a client. If no domain patterns are provided, the names of the certificate are extracted. Non-wildcard matches trump over wildcard matches, explicit domain patterns trump over extracted names. For multiple key/certificate pairs, use the --tls-sni-cert-key multiple times. Examples: "example.crt,example.key" or "foo.crt,foo.key:*.foo.com,foo.com". (default [])
      --token string                                             static oauth2 token to use when calling external services like ZMON and Nakadi
      --zmon-kariosdb-endpoint string                            url of ZMON KariosDB endpoint to query for ZMON checks
      --zmon-token-name string                                   name of the token used to query ZMON (default "zmon")
Options (68)
OptionDescriptionSource
--additional-prometheus-server stringToStringadditional prometheus servers that can be used using the 'prometheus-server-alias' annotation.help
--additional-prometheus-server-token-file stringToStringtoken files for additional prometheus servers.help
--authentication-kubeconfig stringkubeconfig file pointing at the 'core' kubernetes server with enough rights to create tokenreviews.authentication.k8s.io.help
--authentication-skip-lookupIf false, the authentication-kubeconfig will be used to lookup missing authentication configuration from the cluster.help
--authentication-token-webhook-cache-ttl durationThe duration to cache responses from the webhook token authenticator.help
--authentication-tolerate-lookup-failureIf true, failures to look up missing authentication configuration from the cluster are not considered fatal.help
--authorization-always-allow-paths stringsA list of HTTP paths to skip during authorization, i.e. these are authorized without contacting the 'core' kubernetes server.help
--authorization-kubeconfig stringkubeconfig file pointing at the 'core' kubernetes server with enough rights to create subjectaccessreviews.authorization.k8s.io.help
--authorization-webhook-cache-authorized-ttl durationThe duration to cache 'authorized' responses from the webhook authorizer.help
--authorization-webhook-cache-unauthorized-ttl durationThe duration to cache 'unauthorized' responses from the webhook authorizer.help
--aws-external-metricswhether to enable AWS external metricshelp
--aws-region stringsthe AWS regions which should be monitored.help
--bind-address ipThe IP address on which to listen for the --secure-port port.help
--cert-dir stringThe directory where the TLS certs are located.help
--client-ca-file stringIf set, any request presenting a client certificate signed by one of the authorities in the client-ca-file is authenticated with an identity corresponding to the CommonName of the client certificate.help
--contention-profilingEnable block profiling, if profiling is enabledhelp
--credentials-dir stringpath to the credentials dir where tokens are stored (default "/meta/credentials")help
--debug-socket-path stringUse an unprotected (no authn/authz) unix-domain socket for profiling with the given pathhelp
--default-collection-interval durationDefault interval used for collecting metrics.help
--disable-http2-servingIf true, HTTP2 serving will be disabled [default=false]help
--disregard-incompatible-hpasdisregard failing to create collectors for incompatible HPAshelp
--enable-custom-metrics-apiwhether to enable Custom Metrics API (default true)help
--enable-external-metrics-apiwhether to enable External Metrics API (default true)help
--enable-priority-and-fairnessIf true, replace the max-in-flight handler with an enhanced one that queues and dispatches with priority and fairnesshelp
--external-rps-metric-name stringThe name of the metric that should be used to query prometheus for RPS per hostname.help
--external-rps-metricswhether to enable external RPS metric collector or nothelp
--garbage-collector-interval durationInterval to clean up metrics that are stored in in-memory cache.help
-h, --helphelp for this commandhelp
--horizontal-pod-autoscaler-tolerance floatThe HPA tolerance also configured in the HPA controller.help
--http2-max-streams-per-connection intThe limit that the server gives to clients for the maximum number of streams in an HTTP/2 connection.help
--influxdb-address stringaddress of InfluxDB 2.x server to query (e.g. http://localhost:9999)help
--influxdb-org stringorganization ID for InfluxDB 2.x server to queryhelp
--influxdb-token stringtoken for InfluxDB 2.x server to queryhelp
--kube-client-burst intmaximum burst for throttle to the Kubernetes API server (increase for large clusters, defaults to 10)help
--kube-client-qps floatmaximum queries per second (QPS) to the Kubernetes API server (increase for large clusters), defaults to 5help
--lister-kubeconfig stringkubeconfig file pointing at the 'core' kubernetes server with enough rights to list any described objectshelp
--metrics-address stringThe address where to serve prometheus metrics (default ":7979")help
--metrics-ttl durationTTL for metrics that are stored in in-memory cache.help
--nakadi-endpoint stringurl of Nakadi endpoint to for nakadi subscription statshelp
--nakadi-token-name stringname of the token used to call nakadi subscription API (default "nakadi")help
--permit-address-sharingIf true, SO_REUSEADDR will be used when binding the port.help
--permit-port-sharingIf true, SO_REUSEPORT will be used when binding the port, which allows more than one instance to bind on the same address and port.help
--profilingEnable profiling via web interface host:port/debug/pprof/ (default true)help
--prometheus-server stringurl of prometheus server to queryhelp
--prometheus-server-token-file stringpath to file containing bearer token for prometheus server authenticationhelp
--requestheader-allowed-names stringsList of client certificate common names to allow to provide usernames in headers specified by --requestheader-username-headers.help
--requestheader-client-ca-file stringRoot certificate bundle to use to verify client certificates on incoming requests before trusting usernames in headers specified by --requestheader-username-headers.help
--requestheader-extra-headers-prefix stringsList of request header prefixes to inspect.help
--requestheader-group-headers stringsList of request headers to inspect for groups.help
--requestheader-uid-headers stringsList of request headers to inspect for UIDs.help
--requestheader-username-headers stringsList of request headers to inspect for usernames.help
--resource-update-interval durationInterval at which HPA resources get updated.help
--scaling-schedulewhether to enable time-based ScalingSchedule metricshelp
--scaling-schedule-default-scaling-window durationDefault rampup and rampdown window duration for ScalingSchedules (default 10m0s)help
--scaling-schedule-default-time-zone stringDefault time zone to use for ScalingSchedules.help
--scaling-schedule-ramp-steps intNumber of steps used to rampup and rampdown ScalingSchedules.help
--secure-port intThe port on which to serve HTTPS with authentication and authorization.help
--skipper-backends-annotation stringArraythe annotation to get backend weights so that the returned metric can be weightedhelp
--skipper-ingress-metricswhether to enable skipper ingress metricshelp
--skipper-routegroup-metricswhether to enable skipper routegroup metricshelp
--tls-cert-file stringFile containing the default x509 Certificate for HTTPS.help
--tls-cipher-suites stringsComma-separated list of cipher suites for the server.help
--tls-min-version stringMinimum TLS version supported.help
--tls-private-key-file stringFile containing the default x509 private key matching --tls-cert-file.help
--tls-sni-cert-key namedCertKeyA pair of x509 certificate and private key file paths, optionally suffixed with a list of domain patterns which are fully qualified domain names, possibly with prefixed wildcard segments.help
--token stringstatic oauth2 token to use when calling external services like ZMON and Nakadihelp
--zmon-kariosdb-endpoint stringurl of ZMON KariosDB endpoint to query for ZMON checkshelp
--zmon-token-name stringname of the token used to query ZMON (default "zmon")help

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