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What is the purpose of BetterDB Monitor's Prometheus endpoint?
BetterDB Monitor exposes over 100 metrics, all prefixed betterdb_, at GET /api/prometheus/metrics in standard Prometheus text format, so any existing Prometheus server can scrape it exactly like it would scrape a normal exporter, with no custom parsing needed.
The metrics cover ACL audit events, client connections, slowlog and COMMANDLOG patterns, memory, throughput, keyspace, replication, and cluster slot stats, alongside the Node.js runtime metrics of the monitor process itself.
The point of exposing all this through Prometheus rather than only through BetterDB's own dashboard is integration: teams that already run Grafana, alerting rules, and dashboards built around Prometheus can fold Valkey and Redis visibility straight into that existing stack instead of maintaining a second, disconnected monitoring surface.
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