# CoreDNS Metrics API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/coredns/coredns-metrics-api/  
**Provider:** CoreDNS — https://apis.io/providers/coredns/  
**Base URL:** http://localhost:8080  
**Documentation:** https://coredns.io/manual/toc/

CoreDNS Metrics API is one of 5 APIs that [CoreDNS](https://apis.io/providers/coredns/) 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 DNS query statistics, cache performance, latency histograms, and build information.

## Machine-readable artifacts (6)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/coredns/refs/heads/main/openapi/coredns-metrics-api-openapi.yml
- **Documentation** — https://coredns.io/plugins/health/
- **ReadyDocumentation** — https://coredns.io/plugins/ready/
- **Rules** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/coredns/refs/heads/main/rules/coredns-health-rules.yml
- **Documentation** — https://coredns.io/plugins/metrics/
- **Rules** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/coredns/refs/heads/main/rules/coredns-metrics-rules.yml

## Other CoreDNS APIs (4)

- [CoreDNS DNS Interface](https://apis.io/apis/coredns/coredns-dns-api/)
- [CoreDNS Plugin API](https://apis.io/apis/coredns/coredns-plugin-api/)
- [CoreDNS Health API](https://apis.io/apis/coredns/coredns-health-api/)
- [CoreDNS Ready API](https://apis.io/apis/coredns/coredns-ready-api/)

## Tags

Metrics

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