[Prometheus](https://prometheus.io) is a cloud-native monitoring platform. Prometheus offers a multi-dimensional data model with time series data identified by metric name and key/value pairs. The data collection happens via a pull model over HTTP/HTTPS. Users looking to monitor their MinIO instances can point Prometheus configuration to scrape data from following endpoints. 

From that individual connections will be spawned to each remote server, 
or incoming requests will be hooked up to the appropriate connection.

To get a connection to a specific server, use `Manager.Connection(host)` to get a connection to the specified host.
From this connection individual requests can be made.

Each handler, with optional subroutes can be registered with the manager using 

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> NOTE: A zero value of `requests_max` means MinIO will automatically calculate requests based on available RAM size and that is the default behavior.

### Configuring connection (wait) deadline

This value works in conjunction with max connection setting, setting this value allows for long waiting requests to quickly time out when there is no slot available to perform the request.

```
~ mc admin config set alias/ scanner
KEY:
scanner  manage namespace scanning for usage calculation, lifecycle, healing and more

ARGS:

> port                (port)               Postgres server port, defaults to `5432` (used only if `connection_string` is empty)
> username            (string)             database username (used only if `connection_string` is empty)
> password            (string)             database password (used only if `connection_string` is empty)

## Prometheus Probe

MinIO allows reading metrics for the entire cluster from any single node. This allows for metrics collection for a MinIO instance across all servers. Thus, metrics collection for instances behind a load balancer can be done without any knowledge of the individual node addresses. The cluster wide metrics can be read at
`<Address for MinIO Service>/minio/v2/metrics/cluster`.

```
ftp> ls runner/chunkdocs/metadata
229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||44269|)
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list
-rwxrwxrwx 1 nobody nobody           45 Apr  1 06:13 chunkdocs/metadata
226 Closing data connection, sent 75 bytes
ftp> get
(remote-file) runner/chunkdocs/metadata
(local-file) test
local: test remote: runner/chunkdocs/metadata
229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||37785|)

fs.s3a.committer.staging.tmp.path=/tmp/staging
fs.s3a.committer.staging.unique-filenames=true
fs.s3a.connection.establish.timeout=5000
fs.s3a.connection.ssl.enabled=false
fs.s3a.connection.timeout=200000
fs.s3a.endpoint=http://minio:9000
fs.s3a.impl=org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3a.S3AFileSystem

fs.s3a.committer.threads=2048 # Number of threads writing to MinIO
fs.s3a.connection.maximum=8192 # Maximum number of concurrent conns

Similarly, if your TLS certificates do not have the IP SAN for the MinIO server host, the MinIO Console may fail to validate the connection to the server. Use the `MINIO_SERVER_URL` environment variable  and specify the proxy-accessible hostname of the MinIO server to allow the Console to use the MinIO server API using the TLS certificate.

### Remotely Inspecting backend data