Metrics

Download InfluxDB API Spec
Retrieve internal metrics for an InfluxDB OSS v2 instance in Prometheus exposition format.
GET /metrics

Retrieve workload performance metrics

Returns metrics about the workload performance of an InfluxDB instance.

Use this endpoint to get performance, resource, and usage metrics.

Parameters

Header parameters
Zap-Trace-Span string
OpenTracing span context
Example request Ask AI about this
curl --request GET \
  "http://localhost:8086/metrics" \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer INFLUX_TOKEN"

Responses

200

Success. The response body contains metrics in Prometheus plain-text exposition format Metrics contain a name, an optional set of key-value pairs, and a value.

The following descriptors precede each metric:

default Non 2XX error response from server.
code required string
code is the machine-readable error code.
Allowed: internal error , not implemented , not found , conflict , invalid , unprocessable entity , empty value , unavailable , forbidden , too many requests , unauthorized , method not allowed , request too large , unsupported media type
err string
Stack of errors that occurred during processing of the request. Useful for debugging.
message string
Human-readable message.
op string
Describes the logical code operation when the error occurred. Useful for debugging.

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