Deleting Controller Errors Count

This metric can be used to track the number of errors encountered by the deleting policies while trying to delete objects.

Metric Name(s)

  • kyverno_deleting_controller_errors_total

Metric Value

Counter - An only-increasing integer representing the number of errors encountered by the deleting policies while trying to delete objects.

Metric Labels

LabelAllowed ValuesDescription
policy_typeDeletingPolicy or NamespacedDeletingPolicy
policy_namespaceNamespace of the policy (empty for cluster-scoped DeletingPolicy)
policy_nameName of the policy
resource“pods”, “deployments”, “statefulsets”, “replicasets”, etc.resource of the deleted object

Use cases

  • Monitor the number of errors per deleting policy.
  • Alert when deleting operations start failing for specific resources or namespaces.

Useful Queries

  • Number of errors per second per deleting policy:
    sum by (policy_name, policy_namespace) (rate(kyverno_deleting_controller_errors_total{}[5m]))

Last modified December 13, 2025 at 12:09 AM PST: feat: add dpol metrics (Cherry-pick #1740) (#1741) (9610185)