System metrics

BFE has a variety of built-in metrics which can be exposed in various formats.

Configure monitor port

Set monitor port in the BFE core configuration file (conf/bfe.conf).

[Server]
MonitorPort = 8421

Fetch metric categories

Visit the following address for a list of available metric categories

http://<addr>:8421/monitor

Fetch metrics

http://<addr>:8421/monitor/<category>

Fetch metric data in specified format

Currently supported formats:

• prometheus
• kv
• json (default)

Specify the format of the output like below:

http://<addr>:8421/monitor/proxy_state?format=prometheus