CRI-O Metrics API

The CRI-O metrics endpoint exposes Prometheus-compatible metrics for operation counts, container lifecycle, image pulls, and errors. It is enabled with the --enable-metrics flag and served on the configured port (default 9090) at the /metrics path. The endpoint can also be served over a Unix socket and secured with TLS for cluster-grade observability.

OpenAPI Specification

cri-o-metrics-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: CRI-O Metrics API
  description: >-
    The CRI-O metrics endpoint exposes Prometheus-compatible metrics for
    operations, image pulls, container lifecycle, and runtime errors. Metrics
    are enabled with the --enable-metrics daemon flag and served on the port
    configured by --metrics-port (default 9090) at the /metrics path. The
    endpoint can also be served over a Unix socket via --metrics-socket and
    secured using --metrics-cert and --metrics-key for TLS.
  version: '1.0'
  contact:
    name: CRI-O Project
    url: https://cri-o.io/
  license:
    name: Apache 2.0
    url: https://github.com/cri-o/cri-o/blob/main/LICENSE
externalDocs:
  description: CRI-O Metrics Documentation
  url: https://github.com/cri-o/cri-o/blob/main/docs/metrics.md
servers:
  - url: http://localhost:9090
    description: Default CRI-O metrics endpoint
tags:
  - name: Metrics
    description: Prometheus metrics scraping endpoint.
paths:
  /metrics:
    get:
      tags:
        - Metrics
      operationId: getMetrics
      summary: Scrape Prometheus metrics
      description: >-
        Returns the current CRI-O metrics in the Prometheus text exposition
        format, including operation counters, latency histograms, image pull
        statistics, and error counters.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Prometheus metrics in text exposition format.
          content:
            text/plain:
              schema:
                type: string
              example: |
                # HELP container_runtime_crio_operations_total Cumulative number of CRI-O operations by operation type.
                # TYPE container_runtime_crio_operations_total counter
                container_runtime_crio_operations_total{operation_type="create_container"} 42