Maniphest T423851

Collect calico BGP metrics
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	Blake
	Apr 20 2026, 9:33 AM

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Right now, we do not collect BGP metrics from calico. It would be nice to have them to improve the experience of debugging networking issues.

Concretely, add bird-exporter as a sidecar to calico-node containers, to generate these metrics.

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		Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
		Open		JMeybohm	T427069 Update Kubernetes clusters to 1.34
		Open		None	T427400 Update calico to 3.30
		Open		Blake	T356877 Increase visibility of kubernetes network status
		Open		Blake	T423851 Collect calico BGP metrics
		Open		Blake	T423852 Add calico network alerting

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Blake created this task.Apr 20 2026, 9:33 AM

Blake created subtask T423852: Add calico network alerting.

JMeybohm renamed this task from Collect calico network metrics to Collect calico BGP metrics.Apr 20 2026, 10:34 AM

JMeybohm updated the task description. (Show Details)

ayounsi removed projects: Infrastructure-Foundations, netops.Apr 20 2026, 2:21 PM

Blake triaged this task as Low priority.Apr 20 2026, 2:30 PM

Blake moved this task from Inbox to Backlog on the ServiceOps new board.

hnowlan moved this task from Inbox to Radar on the observability board.Apr 29 2026, 1:53 PM

ayounsi mentioned this in T419992: Alert if calico BGP sessions are not established on any kubernetes worker.May 4 2026, 2:30 PM

JMeybohm added a parent task: T427400: Update calico to 3.30.Mon, Jun 1, 8:39 AM