Prometheus Metrics for reverse_proxy upstreams

[genofire]

It would be nice to know, which Upstream give which latency, statuscode or health_status.

Maybe it is also nice to enable it per path (related issue #4016).

[rugk]

Just duplicated this issue inn https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/issues/4309 (keep whatever issue you want open :upside_down_face:)

[uniuuu]

Hi @genofire Please check https://grafana.com/grafana/dashboards/14280 With latest caddy and setting up prometheus to /metrics it's already collecting reverse_proxy requests, errors, request/responce time. Although no status codes.

[francislavoie]

@uniuuu I think that's just showing how many requests reached the reverse_proxy handler. The question was about metrics for which upstreams were hit, i.e. when you have more than one upstream configured for your reverse_proxy.

[lfkdev]

Still a much needed feature. Seeing which upstreams are used is a basic information for a loadbalancer and should be included in the metrics.

[mholt]

Might only be partially resolved by #4935, so reopening

[farhan-ct]

Hi @uniuuu

Could you please explain how you did the /metrics setup? Because simply turning on the metrics api was not giving me any middleware metrics except the admin metrics.

Please check https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/issues/4309#issuecomment-1353007832

I request you to help me out with this. Thank you!

[lfkdev]

@farhan-ct you can enable /metrics in the Caddyconfig and you'll see metrics like which endpoints are online and if they're in a healthy state. Example:

[..]
caddy_reverse_proxy_upstreams_healthy{upstream="123.123.123.123:1337"} 1
caddy_reverse_proxy_upstreams_healthy{upstream="123.123.124.123:1338"} 0
caddy_reverse_proxy_upstreams_healthy{upstream="123.123.125.123:1339"} 1
[..]

Make sure you use a new Caddy Version, that feature was just introduced a little while ago. https://caddyserver.com/docs/metrics

[farhan-ct]

@farhan-ct you can enable /metrics in the Caddyconfig and you'll see metrics like which endpoints are online and if they're in a healthy state. Example:

[..]
caddy_reverse_proxy_upstreams_healthy{upstream="123.123.123.123:1337"} 1
caddy_reverse_proxy_upstreams_healthy{upstream="123.123.124.123:1338"} 0
caddy_reverse_proxy_upstreams_healthy{upstream="123.123.125.123:1339"} 1
[..]

Make sure you use a new Caddy Version, that feature was just introduced a little while ago. https://caddyserver.com/docs/metrics

Yes I enabled that and am able to see the metrics that you just mentioned. However, you can find in this link [https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/issues/4309#issuecomment-1353007832](url) that the @rugk is able to get some other metrics starting with caddy_http_..., request and response stuff. I am struggling on how to get those.

Also, based this PR https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/pull/3709 You can see the sample code in the introduction that's providing the caddy_http_request* metrics which am unable to find in my v2.6.2 (latest) version

@hairyhenderson

Also, I realised that the metrics I want are available in v2.5.2

But as per the doc, enabling the metrics in v2.6.2 should provide these metrics but it doesn't.

[hairyhenderson]

@farhan-ct please read the 2.6 release notes - metrics need to be explicitly enabled now: https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/releases/tag/v2.6.0