When the metrics endpoint is called, Microservices Runtime gathers metrics and returns the data in a Prometheus format. Prometheus is an open source monitoring and alerting toolkit which is frequently used for monitoring containers.

Microservices Runtime returns server-level metrics and service-level metrics. All of the metrics returned by Microservices Runtime are gauge metrics, one of the core metric types. The following sections identify the server and service-level metrics gathered and returned by Microservices Runtime.