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If you are using Prometheus for monitoring and the popular Grafana stack for dashboarding, you can expose Checkly's core metrics on a dedicated, secured endpoint.

💡 Check out our blog post on using this integration with Prometheus and Grafana for some cool real-life applications.

Checkly exposes two type of metrics in a Prometheus-compatible format.

  1. checkly_check_status reports if a check is passing or failing. 1 means the check is passing, 0 means the check is failing.
  2. checkly_check_degraded_status reports if a check is degraded. 1 means the check is not-degraded, 0 means the check is degraded.
  3. checkly_check_result reports the last collected response time for check in a specific region. This means you get one checkly_check_result stanza for each region the check is configured to run in.

Each metric has the following labels

  • check_name, the name of your check.
  • check_type, either api or browser.
  • tags, this check's tags.

Here is an example:

# HELP checkly_check_status The status of the last check. 1 is passing, 0 is failing
# TYPE checkly_check_status gauge
checkly_check_status{check_name="Customer API",check_type="api",muted="false",activated="true" tags="alerts,public"} 1
checkly_check_status{check_name="Email login",check_type="browser",muted="false",activated="true" tags="auth,browser-checks,public"} 0
# HELP checkly_check_degraded_status The degraded status of the last check. 1 is not-degraded, 0 is degraded
# TYPE checkly_check_degraded_status gauge
checkly_check_degraded_status{check_name="Customer API",check_type="api",muted="false",activated="true" tags="alerts,public"} 0
checkly_check_degraded_status{check_name="Email login",check_type="browser",muted="false",activated="true" tags="auth,browser-checks,public"} 1
# HELP checkly_check_result The response time of the last check per region.
# TYPE checkly_check_result gauge
checkly_check_result{check_name="Customer API",check_type="api",region="ap-northeast-2",tags="alerts,public"} 1168
checkly_check_result{check_name="Customer API",check_type="api",region="ap-southeast-1",tags="alerts,public"} 932
checkly_check_result{check_name="Customer API",check_type="api",region="ca-central-1",tags="alerts,public"} 424
checkly_check_result{check_name="Customer API",check_type="api",region="eu-west-2",tags="alerts,public"} 138
checkly_check_result{check_name="Customer API",check_type="api",region="us-east-2",tags="alerts,public"} 432
checkly_check_result{check_name="Email login",check_type="browser",region="ap-south-1",tags="auth,browser-checks,public"} 10174

Notice that:

  • The check for “Email login” is failing.
  • The check for “Customer API” is degraded, but not failing.
  • The checkly_check_status metric has muted and activated labels, reflecting if a check is sending out alerts or is actually running.
  • The checkly_check_result metric has a region label.

Activating this integration is simple.

  1. Navigate to the integrations tab on the account screen and click the ‘Create Prometheus endpoint’ button. Prometheus integration step 1

  2. We directly create an endpoint for you and five your the URL and the required Bearer token. Prometheus integration step 2

  3. Create a new job in your Prometheus prometheus.yml config and set up a scraping interval. We recommend an interval between 30 seconds and 60 seconds. Add the URL (divided into metrics_path, scheme and target) and bearer_token. Here is an example

# prometheus.yml
- job_name: 'checkly'
  scrape_interval: 30s
  metrics_path: '/accounts/993adb-8ac6-3432-9e80-cb43437bf263/prometheus/metrics'
  bearer_token: 'lSAYpOoLtdAa7ajasoNNS234'
  scheme: https
  static_configs:  
  - targets: ['api.checklyhq.com']

Now restart Prometheus and you should see metrics coming in.

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