[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. 

- Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) – Defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) as an
  extended version of SSH 2.0, allowing file transfer over SSH and for use with Transport Layer
  Security (TLS) and VPN applications.

- File Transfer Protocol over SSL/TLS (FTPS) – Encrypted FTP communication via TLS certificates.

- File Transfer Protocol (FTP) – Defined by RFC114 originally, and replaced by RFC765 and RFC959

- Ellipses notation (e.g. `{1...10}`) or bracket notations are fully allowed (e.g. `{a,c,f}`) to have multiple entries in one line.

> NOTE: MinIO environmental variables still take precedence over the `config.yaml` file, however `config.yaml` is preferred over MinIO internal config KV settings via `mc admin config set alias/ <sub-system>`.

### TODO

In subsequent releases we are planning to extend this to provide things like

| Path            | Description                                      |
|-----------------|--------------------------------------------------|
| `/api/requests` | Metrics over all requests                        |
| `/api/bucket`   | Metrics over all requests split by bucket labels |
|                 |                                                  |


### System metrics

# MinIO Monitoring Guide

MinIO server exposes monitoring data over endpoints. Monitoring tools can pick the data from these endpoints. This document lists the monitoring endpoints and relevant documentation.

## Healthcheck Probe

MinIO server has two healthcheck related un-authenticated endpoints, a liveness probe to indicate if server is responding, cluster probe to check if server can be taken down for maintenance.

#### MIT License ####

The following files were ported to Go from C files of libyaml, and thus
are still covered by their original MIT license, with the additional
copyright staring in 2011 when the project was ported over:

    apic.go emitterc.go parserc.go readerc.go scannerc.go
    writerc.go yamlh.go yamlprivateh.go

Copyright (c) 2006-2010 Kirill Simonov
Copyright (c) 2006-2011 Kirill Simonov