Kong | OpsRamp Documentation

Kong is a popular API gateway built for hybrid and multi-cloud, optimized for microservices and distributed architectures.

Prerequisite

For Virtual machines, install the Linux agent.

Configure the credentials in the directory /opt/opsramp/agent/conf/app.d/creds.yaml

kong:
- name: kong
  user: <username>
  pwd: <Password>
  encoding-type: plain
  labels:
    key1: val1
    key2: val2

Click here to view the supported metrics

OpsRamp Metric	Metric Display Name	Unit
kong_connections_accepted Total number of accepted client connections	Connections Accepted	Connections
kong_connections_active Current number of active client connections including Waiting connections	Connections Active	Connections
kong_connections_handled Total number of handled connections. (Same as accepts unless resource limits were reached)	Connections Handled	Connections
kong_connections_reading Current number of connections where Kong is reading the request header	Connections Reading	Connections
kong_connections_waiting Current number of idle client connections waiting for a request	Connections Waiting	Connections
kong_connections_writing Current number of connections where nginx is writing the response back to the client	Connections Writing	Connections
kong_total_requests Total number of client requests	Total Requests	Requests
kong_database_reachable A boolean value reflecting the state of the database connection (1 = true, 0 = false)	Database Reachable

Configure the application in the directory /opt/opsramp/agent/conf/app/discovery/auto-detection.yaml

- name: kong
  instance-checks:
    service-check:
      - kong
    process-check:
      - kong
    port-check:
      - 8001

Configure the application in the directory /opt/opsramp/agent/conf/app/discovery/auto-container-detection.yaml

- name: kong
  container-checks:
    image-check:
      - kong
    port-check:
      - 8001

Configure the application in config.yaml

- name: kong
  container-checks:
    image-check:
      - kong
    port-check:
      - 8001

Go to Resources under the Infrastructure tab to check if your resources are onboarded and the metrics are collected.