express-prom-bundle
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The express-prom-bundle package is a middleware for Express.js that integrates Prometheus metrics collection and reporting. It allows you to easily monitor the performance and health of your Express applications by exposing various metrics that Prometheus can scrape.
Basic Setup
This code demonstrates the basic setup of express-prom-bundle in an Express application. It initializes the middleware and includes it in the app, which will start collecting and exposing metrics.
const express = require('express');
const promBundle = require('express-prom-bundle');
const app = express();
const metricsMiddleware = promBundle({ includeMethod: true });
app.use(metricsMiddleware);
app.get('/', (req, res) => {
res.send('Hello World!');
});
app.listen(3000, () => {
console.log('Server is running on port 3000');
});Custom Metrics
This code demonstrates how to create and use custom metrics with express-prom-bundle. It shows how to define a custom counter and increment it in a route handler.
const express = require('express');
const promBundle = require('express-prom-bundle');
const promClient = require('prom-client');
const app = express();
const metricsMiddleware = promBundle({ includeMethod: true });
app.use(metricsMiddleware);
const customCounter = new promClient.Counter({
name: 'custom_counter',
help: 'Example of a custom counter',
});
app.get('/increment', (req, res) => {
customCounter.inc();
res.send('Counter incremented');
});
app.listen(3000, () => {
console.log('Server is running on port 3000');
});Custom Metrics Endpoint
This code demonstrates how to customize the endpoint where Prometheus metrics are exposed. By setting the `metricsPath` option, you can change the default `/metrics` endpoint to a custom path.
const express = require('express');
const promBundle = require('express-prom-bundle');
const app = express();
const metricsMiddleware = promBundle({ includeMethod: true, metricsPath: '/custom-metrics' });
app.use(metricsMiddleware);
app.get('/', (req, res) => {
res.send('Hello World!');
});
app.listen(3000, () => {
console.log('Server is running on port 3000');
});prom-client is a Prometheus client for Node.js that allows you to create and expose custom metrics. Unlike express-prom-bundle, it does not provide middleware for Express, so you need to manually integrate it into your application.
express-status-monitor is a simple, self-hosted module based on Socket.io and Chart.js to report realtime server metrics for Express-based applications. It provides a web-based dashboard for monitoring but does not integrate with Prometheus.
Express middleware with popular prometheus metrics in one bundle. It's also compatible with koa v1 and v2 (see below).
Internally it uses prom-client. See: https://github.com/siimon/prom-client
Included metrics:
up: normally is just 1http_request_duration_seconds: http latency histogram labeled with status_code, method and pathnpm install express-prom-bundle
const promBundle = require("express-prom-bundle");
const app = require("express")();
const metricsMiddleware = promBundle({includeMethod: true});
app.use(metricsMiddleware);
app.use(/* your middleware */);
app.listen(3000);
ALERT!
The order in which the routes are registered is important, since only the routes registered after the express-prom-bundle will be measured
You can use this to your advantage to bypass some of the routes. See the example below.
Which labels to include in http_request_duration_seconds metric:
{project_name: 'hello_world'}.
Most useful together with transformLabels callback, otherwise it's better to use native Prometheus relabeling.Extra transformation callbacks:
function(req) generates path values from express req (see details below)function(res) producing final status code from express res object, e.g. you can combine 200, 201 and 204 to just 2xx.function(labels, req, res) transforms the labels object, e.g. setting dynamic values to customLabelsOther options:
http_request_duration_seconds histogram/metrics endpoint should be registered. (Default: true)Deprecated:
http_request_duration_seconds metric. It uses req.originalUrl as subject when checking. You want to use express or meddleware features instead of this option.http_request_duration_seconds)Let's say you want to have latency statistics by URL path,
e.g. separate metrics for /my-app/user/, /products/by-category etc.
Just taking req.path as a label value won't work as IDs are often part of the URL,
like /user/12352/profile. So what we actually need is a path template.
The module tries to figure out what parts of the path are values or IDs,
and what is an actual path. The example mentioned before would be
normalized to /user/#val/profile and that will become the value for the label.
You can override this magical behavior and define your own function by providing an optional callback using normalizePath option. You can also replace the default normalizePath function globally.
app.use(promBundle(/* options? */));
// let's reuse the existing one and just add some
// functionality on top
const originalNormalize = promBundle.normalizePath;
promBundle.normalizePath = (req, opts) => {
const path = originalNormalize(req, opts);
// count all docs (no matter which file) as a single path
return path.match(/^\/docs/) ? '/docs/*' : path;
};
For more details:
setup std. metrics but exclude up-metric:
const express = require("express");
const app = express();
const promBundle = require("express-prom-bundle");
// calls to this route will not appear in metrics
// because it's applied before promBundle
app.get("/status", (req, res) => res.send("i am healthy"));
// register metrics collection for all routes
// ... except those starting with /foo
app.use("/((?!foo))*", promBundle({includePath: true}));
// this call will NOT appear in metrics,
// because express will skip the metrics middleware
app.get("/foo", (req, res) => res.send("bar"));
// calls to this route will appear in metrics
app.get("/hello", (req, res) => res.send("ok"));
app.listen(3000);
See an advanced example on github
const promBundle = require("express-prom-bundle");
const Koa = require("koa");
const c2k = require("koa-connect");
const metricsMiddleware = promBundle({/* options */ });
const app = new Koa();
app.use(c2k(metricsMiddleware));
app.use(/* your middleware */);
app.listen(3000);
Here is meddleware config sample, which can be used in a standard kraken.js application:
{
"middleware": {
"expressPromBundle": {
"route": "/((?!status|favicon.ico|robots.txt))*",
"priority": 0,
"module": {
"name": "express-prom-bundle",
"arguments": [
{
"includeMethod": true,
"buckets": [0.1, 1, 5]
}
]
}
}
}
}
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3.1.0
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2.1.0
2.0.0
http_request_seconds to http_request_duration_seconds1.2.1
MIT
FAQs
express middleware with popular prometheus metrics in one bundle
The npm package express-prom-bundle receives a total of 336,753 weekly downloads. As such, express-prom-bundle popularity was classified as popular.
We found that express-prom-bundle demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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