Operations - Monitoring - 《Open Policy Agent v0.28.0 Documentation》

Monitoring

Monitoring

Prometheus

OPA exposes an HTTP endpoint that can be used to collect performance metrics for all API calls. The Prometheus endpoint is enabled by default when you run OPA as a server.

You can enable metric collection from OPA with the following prometheus.yml config:

global:
  scrape_interval: 15s
scrape_configs:
  - job_name: "opa"
    metrics_path: "/metrics"
    static_configs:
    - targets:
      - "localhost:8181"

The Prometheus endpoint exports Go runtime metrics as well as HTTP request latency metrics for all handlers (e.g., v1/data).

Metric name	Metric type	Description
go_gc_duration_seconds	summary	A summary of the GC invocation durations.
go_goroutines	gauge	Number of goroutines that currently exist.
go_info	gauge	Information about the Go environment.
go_memstats_alloc_bytes	gauge	Number of bytes allocated and still in use.
go_memstats_alloc_bytes_total	counter	Total number of bytes allocated, even if freed.
go_memstats_buck_hash_sys_bytes	gauge	Number of bytes used by the profiling bucket hash table.
go_memstats_frees_total	counter	Total number of frees.
go_memstats_gc_cpu_fraction	gauge	The fraction of this program’s available CPU time used by the GC since the program started.
go_memstats_gc_sys_bytes	gauge	Number of bytes used for garbage collection system metadata.
go_memstats_heap_alloc_bytes	gauge	Number of heap bytes allocated and still in use.
go_memstats_heap_idle_bytes	gauge	Number of heap bytes waiting to be used.
go_memstats_heap_inuse_bytes	gauge	Number of heap bytes that are in use.
go_memstats_heap_objects	gauge	Number of allocated objects.
go_memstats_heap_released_bytes	gauge	Number of heap bytes released to OS.
go_memstats_heap_sys_bytes	gauge	Number of heap bytes obtained from system.
go_memstats_last_gc_time_seconds	gauge	Number of seconds since 1970 of last garbage collection.
go_memstats_lookups_total	counter	Total number of pointer lookups.
go_memstats_mallocs_total	counter	Total number of mallocs.
go_memstats_mcache_inuse_bytes	gauge	Number of bytes in use by mcache structures.
go_memstats_mcache_sys_bytes	gauge	Number of bytes used for mcache structures obtained from system.
go_memstats_mspan_inuse_bytes	gauge	Number of bytes in use by mspan structures.
go_memstats_mspan_sys_bytes	gauge	Number of bytes used for mspan structures obtained from system.
go_memstats_next_gc_bytes	gauge	Number of heap bytes when next garbage collection will take place.
go_memstats_other_sys_bytes	gauge	Number of bytes used for other system allocations.
go_memstats_stack_inuse_bytes	gauge	Number of bytes in use by the stack allocator.
go_memstats_stack_sys_bytes	gauge	Number of bytes obtained from system for stack allocator.
go_memstats_sys_bytes	gauge	Number of bytes obtained from system.
go_threads	gauge	Number of OS threads created.
http_request_duration_seconds	histogram	A histogram of duration for requests.

Health Checks

OPA exposes a /health API endpoint that can be used to perform health checks. See Health API for details.

Status API

OPA provides a plugin which can push status to a remote service. See Status API for details.