# Kube\_state\_metrics **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussions\ **Created:** [February 27, 2020, 7:59pm UTC](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/kube-state-metrics/9912 "2020-02-27T19:59:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sibi\_Prasanth](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discuss.kubernetes.io/sibi_prasanth/32/4678_2.png) [@Sibi\_Prasanth](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/u/Sibi_Prasanth)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2020, 7:59pm UTC](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/kube-state-metrics/9912/1 "2020-02-27T19:59:17Z")
I need to know about the below kube\_state\_metrics description. Exactly looking is what the particular metrics doing. Can you please help on this. Horizontal Pod Autoscaler Metrics: kube\_horizontalpodautoscaler\_labels kube\_horizontalpodautoscaler\_metadata\_generation kube\_horizontalpodautoscaler\_spec\_max\_replicas kube\_horizontalpodautoscaler\_spec\_min\_replicas kube\_horizontalpodautoscaler\_spec\_target\_metric kube\_horizontalpodautoscaler\_status\_condition kube\_horizontalpodautoscaler\_status\_current\_replicas kube\_horizontalpodautoscaler\_status\_desired\_replicas Job Metrics: kube\_job\_owner Namespace Metrics: kube\_namespace\_status\_condition Node Metrics: kube\_node\_role kube\_node\_status\_capacity kube\_node\_status\_allocatable PersistentVolumeClaim Metrics: kube\_persistentvolumeclaim\_access\_mode kube\_persistentvolumeclaim\_status\_condition PersistentVolume Metrics: kube\_persistentvolume\_capacity\_bytes Pod Metrics: kube\_pod\_restart\_policy kube\_pod\_init\_container\_info kube\_pod\_init\_container\_status\_waiting\_reason kube\_pod\_init\_container\_status\_terminated\_reason kube\_pod\_init\_container\_status\_last\_terminated\_reason kube\_pod\_init\_container\_resource\_limits ReplicaSet metrics: kube\_replicaset\_labels Service Metrics: kube\_statefulset\_status\_current\_revision kube\_statefulset\_status\_update\_revision StorageClass Metrics: kube\_storageclass\_info kube\_storageclass\_labels kube\_storageclass\_created ValidatingWebhookConfiguration Metrics: kube\_validatingwebhookconfiguration\_info kube\_validatingwebhookconfiguration\_created kube\_validatingwebhookconfiguration\_metadata\_resource\_version Vertical Pod Autoscaler Metrics: kube\_verticalpodautoscaler\_spec\_resourcepolicy\_container\_policies\_minallowed kube\_verticalpodautoscaler\_spec\_resourcepolicy\_container\_policies\_maxallowed kube\_verticalpodautoscaler\_status\_recommendation\_containerrecommendations\_lowerbound kube\_verticalpodautoscaler\_status\_recommendation\_containerrecommendations\_target kube\_verticalpodautoscaler\_status\_recommendation\_containerrecommendations\_uncappedtarget kube\_verticalpodautoscaler\_status\_recommendation\_containerrecommendations\_upperbound kube\_verticalpodautoscaler\_labels kube\_verticalpodautoscaler\_spec\_updatepolicy\_updatemode volumeattachment-metrics: kube\_volumeattachment\_info kube\_volumeattachment\_created kube\_volumeattachment\_labels kube\_volumeattachment\_spec\_source\_persistentvolume kube\_volumeattachment\_status\_attached kube\_volumeattachment\_status\_attachment\_metadata CertificateSigningRequest Metrics: kube\_certificatesigningrequest\_created kube\_certificatesigningrequest\_condition kube\_certificatesigningrequest\_labels kube\_certificatesigningrequest\_cert\_length ---
**Author:** ![tomasz.prus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discuss.kubernetes.io/tomasz.prus/32/6934_2.png) [@tomasz.prus](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/u/tomasz.prus)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2020, 12:52pm UTC](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/kube-state-metrics/9912/2 "2020-02-28T12:52:27Z")
You can ask Prometheus about metadata where you can find “help” for each metric: [https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/querying/api/#querying-metric-metadata](https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/querying/api/#querying-metric-metadata) ---
**Author:** ![Sibi\_Prasanth](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discuss.kubernetes.io/sibi_prasanth/32/4678_2.png) [@Sibi\_Prasanth](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/u/Sibi_Prasanth)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2020, 3:32pm UTC](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/kube-state-metrics/9912/3 "2020-02-28T15:32:05Z")
Thank you. I am checking with Prometheus community ---
**Author:** ![tomasz.prus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discuss.kubernetes.io/tomasz.prus/32/6934_2.png) [@tomasz.prus](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/u/tomasz.prus)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2020, 9:25pm UTC](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/kube-state-metrics/9912/4 "2020-02-28T21:25:31Z")
Sorry, I meant that you can send a request to the Prometheus API to get metadata. There is a field named “help” where you find some information about metrics. ---
**Author:** ![Sibi\_Prasanth](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discuss.kubernetes.io/sibi_prasanth/32/4678_2.png) [@Sibi\_Prasanth](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/u/Sibi_Prasanth)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2020, 1:50pm UTC](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/kube-state-metrics/9912/5 "2020-03-02T13:50:18Z")
Hi, Can you please help with the URL. I am not able to find it out ---
**Author:** ![tomasz.prus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discuss.kubernetes.io/tomasz.prus/32/6934_2.png) [@tomasz.prus](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/u/tomasz.prus)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2020, 10:34pm UTC](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/kube-state-metrics/9912/6 "2020-03-02T22:34:48Z")
Could you try to add `/api/v1/metadata` to your Prometheus endpoint.