Service Mesh Interface (SMI) · Example Payload

Traffic Metrics Example

Service MeshKubernetesTraffic PolicyTraffic ManagementTraffic MetricsStandardsCNCFArchivedSpecificationCustom Resource Definitions

Traffic Metrics Example is an example object payload from Service Mesh Interface (SMI), with 7 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

kindapiVersionresourceedgetimestampwindowmetrics

Example Payload

traffic-metrics-example.json Raw ↑ 
{
  "kind": "TrafficMetrics",
  "apiVersion": "metrics.smi-spec.io/v1alpha1",
  "resource": {
    "name": "foo-775b9cbd88-ntxsl",
    "namespace": "foobar",
    "kind": "Pod"
  },
  "edge": {
    "direction": "to",
    "side": "client",
    "resource": {
      "name": "bar-fb7c8b46f-2plgz",
      "namespace": "foobar",
      "kind": "Pod"
    }
  },
  "timestamp": "2026-04-08T22:25:55Z",
  "window": "30s",
  "metrics": [
    { "name": "p99_response_latency", "unit": "seconds", "value": "0.020" },
    { "name": "p90_response_latency", "unit": "seconds", "value": "0.012" },
    { "name": "p50_response_latency", "unit": "seconds", "value": "0.005" },
    { "name": "success_count", "value": "100" },
    { "name": "failure_count", "value": "0" }
  ]
}