# Containerd Metrics API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/containerd/containerd-metrics-api/  
**Provider:** Containerd — https://apis.io/providers/containerd/  
**Documentation:** https://github.com/containerd/containerd/tree/main/api

Containerd Metrics API is one of 4 APIs that [Containerd](https://apis.io/providers/containerd/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include Metrics. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.

Prometheus-compatible metrics endpoints exposing containerd runtime statistics including gRPC request rates, snapshot usage, and task lifecycle counts.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/containerd/refs/heads/main/openapi/containerd-metrics-api-openapi.yml
- **Documentation** — https://containerd.io/docs/

## Other Containerd APIs (3)

- [Containerd gRPC API](https://apis.io/apis/containerd/containerd-grpc-api/)
- [Containerd CRI API](https://apis.io/apis/containerd/containerd-cri-api/)
- [Containerd NRI API](https://apis.io/apis/containerd/containerd-nri-api/)

## Tags

Metrics

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/containerd/containerd-metrics-api/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/containerd/.