Route discovery service (RDS)

The route discovery service (RDS) API is an optional API that Envoy will call to dynamically fetch route configurations. A route configuration includes both HTTP header modifications, virtual hosts, and the individual route entries contained within each virtual host. Each HTTP connection manager filter can independently fetch its own route configuration via the API.

Statistics

RDS has a statistics tree rooted at http..rds... Any : character in the route_config_name name gets replaced with _ in the stats tree. The stats tree contains the following statistics:

NameTypeDescription
config_reloadCounterTotal API fetches that resulted in a config reload due to a different config
update_attemptCounterTotal API fetches attempted
update_successCounterTotal API fetches completed successfully
update_failureCounterTotal API fetches that failed because of network errors
update_rejectedCounterTotal API fetches that failed because of schema/validation errors
versionGaugeHash of the contents from the last successful API fetch