--- title: Circonus overview: Adapter for circonus.com's monitoring solution. location: https://istio.io/docs/reference/config/adapters/circonus.html layout: protoc-gen-docs number_of_entries: 3 ---

The `circonus` adapter enables Istio to deliver metric data to the Circonus monitoring backend.

## Params

Configuration format for the Circonus adapter.

Field | Type | Description
--- | --- | ---
`submissionUrl` | `string` | Circonus SubmissionURL to HTTPTrap check
`submissionInterval` | `google.protobuf.Duration` |
`metrics` | `Params.MetricInfo[]` |

## Params.MetricInfo

Describes how to represent a metric

Field | Type | Description
--- | --- | ---
`name` | `string` | name
`type` | `Params.MetricInfo.Type` |

## Params.MetricInfo.Type

The type of metric.

Name | Description
--- | ---
`UNKNOWN` |
`COUNTER` |
`GAUGE` |
`DISTRIBUTION` |