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title: node-status keywords:

• Apache APISIX
• API Gateway
• Plugin
• Node status description: This document contains information about the Apache APISIX node-status Plugin.

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Description

The node-status Plugin can be used get the status of requests to APISIX by exposing an API endpoint.

Attributes

None.

API

This Plugin will add the endpoint /apisix/status to expose the status of APISIX.

You may need to use the public-api Plugin to expose the endpoint.

Enable Plugin

To configure the node-status Plugin, you have to first enable it in your configuration file (conf/config.yaml):

plugins:
  - example-plugin
  - limit-req
  - jwt-auth
  - zipkin
  - node-status
  ......

You have to the setup the Route for the status API and expose it using the public-api Plugin.

curl http://127.0.0.1:9180/apisix/admin/routes/ns -H 'X-API-KEY: edd1c9f034335f136f87ad84b625c8f1' -X PUT -d '
{
    "uri": "/apisix/status",
    "plugins": {
        "public-api": {}
    }
}'

Example usage

Once you have configured the Plugin, you can make a request to the apisix/status endpoint to get the status:

curl http://127.0.0.1:9080/apisix/status -i

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2020 11:12:55 GMT
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: keep-alive
Server: APISIX web server

{"status":{"total":"23","waiting":"0","accepted":"22","writing":"1","handled":"22","active":"1","reading":"0"},"id":"6790a064-8f61-44ba-a6d3-5df42f2b1bb3"}

The parameters in the response are described below:

Parameter	Description
status	Status of APISIX.
total	Total number of client requests.
waiting	Number of idle client connections waiting for a request.
accepted	Number of accepted client connections.
writing	Number of connections to which APISIX is writing back a response.
handled	Number of handled connections. Generally, this value is the same as accepted unless any a resource limit is reached.
active	Number of active client connections including waiting connections.
reading	Number of connections where APISIX is reading the request header.
id	UID of APISIX instance saved in apisix/conf/apisix.uid.

Delete Plugin

To remove the Plugin, you can remove it from your configuration file (conf/config.yaml):

plugins:
  - example-plugin
  - limit-req
  - jwt-auth
  - zipkin
  ......

You can also remove the Route on /apisix/status:

curl http://127.0.0.1:9180/apisix/admin/routes/ns -H 'X-API-KEY: edd1c9f034335f136f87ad84b625c8f1' -X DELETE