Monitoring Proxy Pool Metrics
Key metrics for proxy pools: success rate, latency histograms, live count, ban rate, and alert thresholds.
Key metrics for proxy pools: success rate, latency histograms, live count, ban rate, and alert thresholds.
Essential metrics
- Success rate by ASN
- p50/p95 latency
- Live pool size
- 407/403 rates
- Cost per successful request
Dashboards
Slice by protocol, country, and job type to spot drift early.
Related: audit logging.
Alerts
Page when live pool drops below SLO or success rate halves in 10 minutes.
Related: incident response.
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