> 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

- Reload() of MinIO server arguments without fully restarting the process.

## Request, System and Cluster Metrics

At a high level metrics are grouped into three categories, listed in the following sub-sections. The path in each of the tables is relative to the top-level endpoint.

### Request metrics 

These are metrics about requests served by the (current) node.

| `s3:BucketRemoved`                                                           |

- MinIO distributed mode requires **fresh directories**. If required, the drives can be shared with other applications. You can do this by using a sub-directory exclusive to MinIO. For example, if you have mounted your volume under `/export`, pass `/export/data` as arguments to MinIO server.