apisix/doc/plugins/prometheus.md

# prometheus

This plugin exposes metrics in Prometheus Exposition format.

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## Attributes

none.

## How to enable it

`prometheus` plugin can be enable with empty table, because it doesn't have
any options yet.

For example:

```shell
curl http://127.0.0.1:9080/apisix/admin/routes/1 -X PUT -d '
{
    "uri": "/hello",
    "plugins": {
        "prometheus":{}
    },
    "upstream": {
        "type": "roundrobin",
        "nodes": {
            "127.0.0.1:80": 1
        }
    }
}'
```

## How to fetch the metric data

We fetch the metric data from the specified url `/apisix/prometheus/metrics`.

Puts this uri address into prometheus, and it will automatically fetch
these metric data.

For example like this:

```yaml
scrape_configs:
  - job_name: 'apisix'
    metrics_path: '/apisix/prometheus/metrics'
    static_configs:
    - targets: ['127.0.0.1:9080']
```

And we can check the status at prometheus console:

![](../../../doc/images/plugin/prometheus01.png)

![](../../../doc/images/plugin/prometheus02.png)


### Grafana dashboard

Metrics exported by the plugin can be graphed in Grafana using a drop in dashboard: https://grafana.com/dashboards/7424 .


### Available metrics

* `Status codes`: HTTP status codes returned by upstream services. These are available per service and across all services.
* `Bandwidth`: Total Bandwidth (egress/ingress) flowing through apisix. This metric is available per service and as a sum across all services.
* `etcd reachability`: A gauge type with a value of 0 or 1, representing if etcd can be reached by a apisix or not.
* `Connections`: Various Nginx connection metrics like active, reading, writing, and number of accepted connections.

Here is the original metric data of apisix:

```
$ curl http://127.0.0.2:9080/apisix/prometheus/metrics
# HELP apisix_bandwidth Total bandwidth in bytes consumed per service in Apisix
# TYPE apisix_bandwidth counter
apisix_bandwidth{type="egress",service="127.0.0.2"} 183
apisix_bandwidth{type="egress",service="bar.com"} 183
apisix_bandwidth{type="egress",service="foo.com"} 2379
apisix_bandwidth{type="ingress",service="127.0.0.2"} 83
apisix_bandwidth{type="ingress",service="bar.com"} 76
apisix_bandwidth{type="ingress",service="foo.com"} 988
# HELP apisix_etcd_reachable Config server etcd reachable from Apisix, 0 is unreachable
# TYPE apisix_etcd_reachable gauge
apisix_etcd_reachable 1
# HELP apisix_http_status HTTP status codes per service in Apisix
# TYPE apisix_http_status counter
apisix_http_status{code="200",service="127.0.0.2"} 1
apisix_http_status{code="200",service="bar.com"} 1
apisix_http_status{code="200",service="foo.com"} 13
# HELP apisix_nginx_http_current_connections Number of HTTP connections
# TYPE apisix_nginx_http_current_connections gauge
apisix_nginx_http_current_connections{state="accepted"} 11994
apisix_nginx_http_current_connections{state="active"} 2
apisix_nginx_http_current_connections{state="handled"} 11994
apisix_nginx_http_current_connections{state="reading"} 0
apisix_nginx_http_current_connections{state="total"} 1191780
apisix_nginx_http_current_connections{state="waiting"} 1
apisix_nginx_http_current_connections{state="writing"} 1
# HELP apisix_nginx_metric_errors_total Number of nginx-lua-prometheus errors
# TYPE apisix_nginx_metric_errors_total counter
apisix_nginx_metric_errors_total 0
```