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# sk185070 - Skyline continues to send metrics after they were removed with sklnctl

| Property | Value |
|----------|-------|
| Solution ID | sk185070 |
| Date Created | 2026-06-29 |
| Last Modified | 2026-07-08 |
| Technical Level | Advanced |
| Products | Security Gateway |
| Versions | R82.10, R82, R81.20 |

## Symptoms

- * Metrics that were removed using following commands are still sent to Skyline:

  ```
  
  sklnctl otelcol metrics --remove hardware.fan.max
  sklnctl otelcol metrics --remove hardware.fan.min
  sklnctl otelcol metrics --remove hardware.fan
  sklnctl otelcol metrics --remove hardware.bios.state
  sklnctl otelcol metrics --remove system.cpu.count
  sklnctl otelcol metrics --remove system.cpu.dynamic_balancing.state
  ```

* The following command shows only a limited set of metrics, as expected:  
  `[Expert@xxxx] sklnctl otelcol metrics --show`

## Cause

The file */var/log/CPotelcol/skyline_metrics* contains an empty string (`""`) inside the JSON array. This invalid entry affects how `CPotelcol` processes the metrics list and causes metrics that were removed to still be sent. Here is an example of the file with an empty string:  

```
[Expert@xxxx]# cat /var/log/CPotelcol/skyline_metrics

[
� "hardware.temperature.state",
� "hardware.temperature.max",
� "hardware.temperature.min",
� "hardware.temperature",
� "hardware.voltage.state",
� "hardware.voltage.min",
� "hardware.voltage.max",
� "hardware.voltage",
� "hardware.power_supply.state",
� "hardware.fan.state",
� "system.cpu.utilization",
� "system.memory.limit",
� "system.memory.usage",
� "system.filesystem.usage",
� "system.filesystem.limit",
� "system.gaia.module.version",
� "system.network.io.receive",
� "system.network.io.transmit",
� "system.traffic.io.receive",
� "system.traffic.io.transmit",
� "system.network.connections",
� "system.network.tcp_out_of_state_drops.state",
� "",
� "system.uptime"
]

```

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