Microservices Runtime can generate metrics about the server and services on the server that the Prometheus server can use to provide insight to the operation of the Microservices Runtime and the services it contains. Microservices Runtime generates metrics in a Prometheus format. Prometheus is an open source monitoring and alerting toolkit which is frequently used for monitoring microservices.

Microservices Runtime exposes the metrics generating feature via the metrics endpoint. When the metrics endpoint is invoked, Microservices Runtime gathers server, service-level, and JVM metrics and returns the data in a Prometheus format.

Microservices Runtime can also gather and return metrics for when the metrics endpoint is called.

For a detailed list of the metrics returned by Microservices Runtime, see Prometheus Metrics Returned by Microservices Runtime .