21 October 2026¶

Catalyst Cloud Metrics Service¶

Our telemetry servies have been upgraded, introducing new resource attributes and metrics to the Catalyst Cloud Metrics Service.

Instances
- New attributes
- Updated metrics
Volumes
- New attributes
Load Balancers

Instances¶

Instance resources have been updated with new resource attributes and updated metrics.

Note

Some of the new resource attributes may not be populated until a change has been made to the instance via the Compute API e.g. configuration change, restart, shelve or unshelve.

New attributes¶

The following new resource attributes have been added.

Attribute	Description
`availability_zone`	The availability zone the instance is located in.

Updated metrics¶

Some instance metrics, such as memory.available and memory.usage, now have measures recorded more accurately, including any decimal components (which were previously rounded down to the nearest whole number).

Volumes¶

Volume resources have been updated with new resource attributes.

New attributes¶

The following new resource attributes have been added.

Attribute	Description
`volume_type_id`	The ID of the volume type this volume uses.
`image_id`	The ID of the image this volume was created from, if created from an image.
`instance_id`	The ID of the instance this volume is attached to (if attached to one), or the ID of the last instance it was attached to (if no longer attached to one).

Load Balancers¶

Load balancer resources have been updated with new resource attributes and metrics.

New attributes¶

The following new resource attributes have been added.

Attribute	Description
`availability_zone`	The availability zone the load balancer is located in.
`vip_address`	The virtual IP address the load balancer is bound to.
`provider`	The provider used to provision the load balancer. On Catalyst Cloud, the `amphora` provider is used.

New metrics¶

The following new metrics have been added.

Metric	Description
`loadbalancer.provisioning`	The provisioning status of the load balancer.
`loadbalancer.operating`	The operating status of the load balancer.

Removed metrics¶

The following metrics have been removed, and replaced with new metrics.

Removed Metric	Replaced By
`network.services.octavia.loadbalancer`	`loadbalancer.provisioning`