apisix/docs/en/latest/plugins/prometheus.md

title
prometheus

This plugin exposes metrics in Prometheus Exposition format.

Attributes

none.

API

This plugin will add /apisix/prometheus/metrics to expose the metrics. You may need to use interceptors to protect it.

How to enable it

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

For example:

curl http://127.0.0.1:9080/apisix/admin/routes/1  -H 'X-API-KEY: edd1c9f034335f136f87ad84b625c8f1' -X PUT -d '
{
    "uri": "/hello",
    "plugins": {
        "prometheus":{}
    },
    "upstream": {
        "type": "roundrobin",
        "nodes": {
            "127.0.0.1:80": 1
        }
    }
}'

You can open dashboard with a browser: http://127.0.0.1:9080/apisix/dashboard/, to complete the above operation through the web interface, first add a route:

Then add prometheus plugin:

How to fetch the metric data

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

curl -i http://127.0.0.1:9080/apisix/prometheus/metrics

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

For example like this:

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:

How to specify export uri

We can change the default export uri in the plugin_attr section of conf/config.yaml.

Name	Type	Default	Description
export_uri	string	"/apisix/prometheus/metrics"	uri to get the prometheus metrics

Here is an example:

plugin_attr:
  prometheus:
    export_uri: /apisix/metrics

Grafana dashboard

Metrics exported by the plugin can be graphed in Grafana using a drop in dashboard.

Downloads Grafana dashboard meta and imports it to Grafana。

Or you can goto Grafana official for Grafana meta data.

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.
• Batch process entries: A gauge type, when we use plugins and the plugin used batch process to send data, such as: sys logger, http logger, sls logger, tcp logger, udp logger and zipkin, then the entries which hasn't been sent in batch process will be counted in the metrics.
• Latency: The per service histogram of request time and the overhead added by APISIX (request time - upstream response time).
• Info: the information of APISIX node.

Here is the original metric data of apisix:

$ curl http://127.0.0.1:9080/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_modify_indexes Etcd modify index for APISIX keys
# TYPE apisix_etcd_modify_indexes gauge
apisix_etcd_modify_indexes{key="consumers"} 0
apisix_etcd_modify_indexes{key="global_rules"} 0
apisix_etcd_modify_indexes{key="max_modify_index"} 222
apisix_etcd_modify_indexes{key="prev_index"} 35
apisix_etcd_modify_indexes{key="protos"} 0
apisix_etcd_modify_indexes{key="routes"} 222
apisix_etcd_modify_indexes{key="services"} 0
apisix_etcd_modify_indexes{key="ssls"} 0
apisix_etcd_modify_indexes{key="stream_routes"} 0
apisix_etcd_modify_indexes{key="upstreams"} 0
apisix_etcd_modify_indexes{key="x_etcd_index"} 223
# HELP apisix_batch_process_entries batch process remaining entries
# TYPE apisix_batch_process_entries gauge
apisix_batch_process_entries{name="http-logger",route_id="9",server_addr="127.0.0.1"} 1
apisix_batch_process_entries{name="sls-logger",route_id="9",server_addr="127.0.0.1"} 1
apisix_batch_process_entries{name="tcp-logger",route_id="9",server_addr="127.0.0.1"} 1
apisix_batch_process_entries{name="udp-logger",route_id="9",server_addr="127.0.0.1"} 1
apisix_batch_process_entries{name="sys-logger",route_id="9",server_addr="127.0.0.1"} 1
apisix_batch_process_entries{name="zipkin_report",route_id="9",server_addr="127.0.0.1"} 1
# 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
# HELP apisix_http_latency HTTP request latency in milliseconds per service in APISIX
# TYPE apisix_http_latency histogram
apisix_http_latency_bucket{type="request",service="",consumer="",node="127.0.0.1",le="00001.0"} 1
apisix_http_latency_bucket{type="request",service="",consumer="",node="127.0.0.1",le="00002.0"} 1
...
# HELP apisix_http_overhead HTTP request overhead added by APISIX in milliseconds per service in APISIX
# TYPE apisix_http_overhead histogram
apisix_http_overhead_bucket{type="request",service="",consumer="",node="127.0.0.1",le="00001.0"} 1
apisix_http_overhead_bucket{type="request",service="",consumer="",node="127.0.0.1",le="00002.0"} 1
...
# HELP apisix_node_info Info of APISIX node
# TYPE apisix_node_info gauge
apisix_node_info{hostname="desktop-2022q8f-wsl"} 1

Disable Plugin

Remove the corresponding json configuration in the plugin configuration to disable prometheus. APISIX plugins are hot-reloaded, therefore no need to restart APISIX.

curl http://127.0.0.1:9080/apisix/admin/routes/1  -H 'X-API-KEY: edd1c9f034335f136f87ad84b625c8f1' -X PUT -d '
{
    "uri": "/hello",
    "plugins": {},
    "upstream": {
        "type": "roundrobin",
        "nodes": {
            "127.0.0.1:80": 1
        }
    }
}'