vm/api/metrics/service.md

The Metrics API allows clients to get statistics about a node's health and performance.

This API set is for a specific node, it is unavailable on the [public server](https://docs.lux.network/docs/tooling/rpc-providers).

Endpoint

/ext/metrics

Usage

To get the node metrics:

curl -X POST 127.0.0.1:9630/ext/metrics

Format

This API produces Prometheus compatible metrics. See here for information on Prometheus' formatting.

Here is a tutorial that shows how to set up Prometheus and Grafana to monitor Lux Node using the Metrics API.