express-gateway-plugin-metrics-prometheus v1.3.4

express-gateway-plugin-metrics-prometheus

Creates a metrics policy to expose prometheus metrics on /metrics

install

eg install express-gateway-plugin-metrics-prometheus

development

For development, start the gateway using cd gateway && npm start

You will also need httpbin for accepting HTTP requests, so fire up a docker container: docker run -p 8081:80 kennethreitz/httpbin

In order to generate metrics you can use the ab cli tool provided by the apache2-utils package.

Simply call ab -n <NUMBER_OF_REQUESTS> http://localhost:8080/<HTTPBIN_REQUEST_PATH>

metrics

• http_requests_total
• http_request_duration_ms