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DOCA Telemetry Service

Type: Service Tags: NVIDIA, DOCA, telemetry, DTS, BlueField, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, NetFlow, monitoring, observability Related: NVIDIA-DOCA, NVIDIA-BlueField-DPU, NVIDIA-DCGM, NVIDIA-NetQ, NVIDIA-Mission-Control, DOCA-Flow, DOCA-PCC, NVIDIA-Spectrum-X, Morpheus Sources: https://docs.nvidia.com/doca/sdk/doca-telemetry-service-guide/index.html Last Updated: 2026-04-29

Summary

DOCA Telemetry Service (DTS) is NVIDIA’s DOCA service for collecting, aggregating, and exporting telemetry from BlueField and host environments. It belongs in the wiki as the DOCA-side observability service: the place to connect DPU/network counters, BlueField performance data, RDMA notifications, Prometheus/OpenTelemetry exports, and operations tools such as NVIDIA-DCGM, NVIDIA-NetQ, and NVIDIA-Mission-Control.

Detail

The current DOCA 3.3.0 guide presents DTS as a service with configurable providers and data outputs. It can be deployed from the built-in DOCA service image on BlueField, through a DOCA service container from NGC, or on a host. The docs also include a Grafana monitoring deployment path.

Data providers in the current guide include sysfs, ethtool counters, traffic control information, network interfaces, NVIDIA System Management Interface, NVIDIA-DCGM, BlueField performance, diagnostic data, RDMA notifications, vNIC metrics, adaptive retransmission, PPCC Ethernet, and aggregation providers such as Fluent and Prometheus. That makes DTS a bridging layer between low-level DPU/network hardware state and higher-level AI factory monitoring.

Output options include local storage, Prometheus exporter, NetFlow exporter, OpenTelemetry exporter, Prometheus remote write, load balancer exporter, and distributed real-time analysis exporter. In the wiki graph, this connects DOCA service telemetry to fabric operations, congestion-control tuning, and security analytics rather than leaving observability buried inside individual BlueField or networking pages.

Connections

  • NVIDIA-DOCA - DTS is a DOCA service in the current DOCA 3.3.0 docs.
  • NVIDIA-BlueField-DPU - BlueField can run the built-in DOCA service image and expose DPU/network telemetry.
  • NVIDIA-DCGM - DTS includes an NVIDIA DCGM provider, linking GPU and DPU/network observability.
  • NVIDIA-NetQ - NetQ is the network operations layer adjacent to DTS data collection.
  • NVIDIA-Mission-Control - Mission Control consumes broader AI factory telemetry and operations signals.
  • DOCA-Flow - packet-processing flows and counters can be analyzed alongside DTS telemetry.
  • DOCA-PCC - programmable congestion-control workflows need fabric telemetry and feedback.
  • NVIDIA-Spectrum-X - Ethernet AI fabrics depend on telemetry for congestion, link, and transport health.
  • Morpheus - security analytics can consume infrastructure telemetry from DPU-side sources.

Source Excerpts

  • “DOCA Telemetry Service Guide”
  • “Prometheus Exporter”
  • “OpenTelemetry Exporter”

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