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

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.


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