Monitoring

OpenMeter provides a way to monitor the event ingestion pipeline in your infrastructure. Event ingestion monitoring can be useful for debugging, monitoring data quality, and ensuring that events are sent to OpenMeter correctly.

#Why Monitor Ingestion?

Monitoring the event ingestion pipeline can help you notice when:

• Your system stopped sending events to OpenMeter.
• Ingested events are incorrect or missing fields.
• OpenMeter is having trouble processing events.

#Collecting Metrics

The OpenMeter GET /api/v1/debug/metrics API endpoint provides metrics in Prometheus format. You can use a Prometheus server or any other monitoring system that supports the Prometheus format to collect these metrics. For more information on using the metrics API, check out the API documentation.

Popular monitoring solutions compatible with the Prometheus metrics format:

• Prometheus
• Victoria Metrics
• Grafana

#Authentication

The metrics API uses the same authentication method as the other API endpoints. We recommend putting the API key in the Authorization header. Check the API documentation for more information.

#Counter Resets

The metrics counters reset at midnight UTC. The Prometheus query language offers functions like increase and rate to handle counter resets correctly.

For example:

• increase(openmeter_events_total[24h]) returns the number of events for the last 24 hours
• rate(openmeter_events_total[1h]) returns the average per-second event read rate for the last hour

#Available Metrics

The following metrics are provided by the OpenMeter Debug Metrics API.

#Number of Ingested Events

The metric openmeter_events_total counts the number of ingested events for each subject and if an error occurred. Monitoring the number of ingested events can help you ensure that events are sent and processed correctly.

Example response for the openmeter_events_total counter metric:

# HELP openmeter_events Number of ingested events
# TYPE openmeter_events counter
openmeter_events_total{subject="customer-1"} 12345.0
openmeter_events_total{subject="customer-1",error="true"} 1.0
openmeter_events_total{subject="customer-2"} 67890.0

Recommended Alerts

• Alert when the number of ingested events is significantly lower than expected.
• Alert when the number of ingested events with errors is not zero.