k6_http_req_failed is always 1

[Limess]

The metric k6_http_req_failed is always 1, rather than a counter, so we can't see a count via increase or rate.

There's a good chance I've misunderstood this metric - is it supposed to be a gauge indicating a scenario failure? Should we add our own error rate metric?

Build command:

go install go.k6.io/xk6/cmd/xk6@latest
xk6 build \
    --with github.com/grafana/xk6-output-prometheus-remote@latest

Version:

xk6-output-prometheus-remote 0.06

go: downloading go.k6.io/k6 v0.41.1-0.20221116104224-5fa71b761185

[codebien]

Hi @Limess,
yes, a k6's rate like k6_http_req_failed is mapped to a gauge and, in this case, it is always expected to be one because you have expected_response, error_code and status tags that generate individual time series. You should aggregate them to get a unique representation.

For example, for average, you could use:

sum(sum_over_time(k6_http_req_failed_rate[1m])) by (name)
/
sum(count_over_time(k6_http_req_failed_rate[1m])) by (name)

Instead, if you don't care about these tags, you could disable them using the k6 option systemTags.

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[Limess]

Thanks, will close this.