--- title: Circonus description: Adapter for circonus.com's monitoring solution. location: https://istio.io/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/adapters/circonus.html layout: protoc-gen-docs generator: protoc-gen-docs supported_templates: metric aliases: - /docs/reference/config/adapters/circonus.html number_of_entries: 3 ---

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

This adapter supports the metric template.

## Params

Configuration format for the Circonus adapter.

Field | Type | Description | Required
--- | --- | --- | ---
`submissionUrl` | `string` | Circonus SubmissionURL to HTTPTrap check | No
`submissionInterval` | `Duration` |  | No
`metrics` | `MetricInfo[]` |  | No

## Params.MetricInfo

Describes how to represent a metric

Field | Type | Description | Required
--- | --- | --- | ---
`name` | `string` | name | No
`type` | `Type` |  | No

## Params.MetricInfo.Type

The type of metric.

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