prometheus.NewDesc(
			prometheus.BuildFQName(minioNamespace, "nodes", "online"),
			"Total number of MinIO nodes online",
			nil, nil),
		prometheus.GaugeValue,
		float64(nodesUp),
	)
	ch <- prometheus.MustNewConstMetric(
		prometheus.NewDesc(
			prometheus.BuildFQName(minioNamespace, "nodes", "offline"),
			"Total number of MinIO nodes offline",
			nil, nil),
		prometheus.GaugeValue,
		float64(nodesDown),

version:
address: ':9000'
console-address: ':9001'
certs-dir: '/home/user/.minio/certs/'
pools: # Specify the nodes and drives with pools
  -
        - 'https://server-example-pool1:9000/mnt/disk{1...4}/'
        - 'https://server1-pool1:9000/mnt/disk{1...4}/'
        - 'https://server3-pool1:9000/mnt/disk{1...4}/'
        - 'https://server4-pool1:9000/mnt/disk{1...4}/'
  -
        - 'https://server-example-pool2:9000/mnt/disk{1...4}/'

		switch msgp.UnsafeString(field) {
		case "Nodes":
			var zb0002 uint32
			zb0002, err = dc.ReadArrayHeader()
			if err != nil {
				err = msgp.WrapError(err, "Nodes")
				return
			}
			if cap(z.Nodes) >= int(zb0002) {
				z.Nodes = (z.Nodes)[:zb0002]
			} else {
				z.Nodes = make([]ReplQNodeStats, zb0002)
			}
			for za0001 := range z.Nodes {
				err = z.Nodes[za0001].DecodeMsg(dc)
				if err != nil {

Example: Limit a MinIO cluster to accept at max 1600 simultaneous S3 API requests across all nodes of the cluster.

```sh
export MINIO_API_REQUESTS_MAX=1600
export MINIO_ROOT_USER=your-access-key
export MINIO_ROOT_PASSWORD=your-secret-key
minio server http://server{1...8}/mnt/hdd{1...16}
```

or

	return nil
}

const (
	healthNodesOfflineCount = "nodes_offline_count"
	healthNodesOnlineCount  = "nodes_online_count"
)

var (
	healthNodesOfflineCountMD = NewGaugeMD(healthNodesOfflineCount,
		"Count of offline nodes in the cluster")
	healthNodesOnlineCountMD = NewGaugeMD(healthNodesOnlineCount,
		"Count of online nodes in the cluster")
)

NODES=4

args1=()
args2=()
for i in $(seq 1 $NODES); do
	args1+=("http://localhost:$((9000 + i))/tmp/xl/1/$i ")
	args2+=("http://localhost:$((9100 + i))/tmp/xl/2/$i ")
done

for i in $(seq 1 $NODES); do
	./minio server --address "127.0.0.1:$((9000 + i))" ${args1[@]} & # | tee /tmp/minio/node.$i &

	nodes := endpoints.GetNodes()
	peers = make([]peerS3Client, len(nodes))
	for i, node := range nodes {
		if node.IsLocal {
			peers[i] = &localPeerS3Client{node: node}
		} else {
			peers[i] = newPeerS3Client(node)
		}
		peers[i].SetPools(node.Pools)
	}

	return peers
}

// Returns a peer S3 client.
func newPeerS3Client(node Node) peerS3Client {

```

##### Node (optional)

Optionally you can also collect per node metrics. This needs to be done on a per server instance.
The scrape configurations should use all the servers under `targets` so that graphing systems like
grafana can visualize them for all the nodes

```yaml
scrape_configs:
- job_name: minio-job
  metrics_path: /minio/v2/metrics/node
  scheme: http
  static_configs:

	envValues := make(map[string]string, len(envs))
	for _, envK := range envs {
		// skip certain environment variables as part
		// of the whitelist and could be configured
		// differently on each nodes, update skipEnvs()
		// map if there are such environment values
		if _, ok := skipEnvs[envK]; ok {
			continue
		}
		envValues[envK] = logger.HashString(env.Get(envK, ""))
	}

This topic provides commands to set up different configurations of hosts, nodes, and drives. The examples provided here can be used as a starting point for other configurations.

1. [Standalone Deployment](#standalone-deployment)
2. [Distributed Deployment](#distributed-deployment)