Docs for /metrics endpoint #2024
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codebien
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Aug 8, 2025
| * [pprof](https://pkg.go.dev/net/http/pprof) profiling endpoints for CPU and memory profiling | ||
| * Prometheus [/metrics](https://prometheus.io/docs/guides/go-application/#how-go-exposition-works) endpoint for exporting Go runtime metrics | ||
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| The k6 REST API must be enabled for these endpoints to be available (this is the default behavior). |
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This was already added before, but I haven't found the documentation about how to disable the API. Do we really support it?
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I will try to submit some docs for it as soon as possible tomorrow.
mstoykov
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Aug 11, 2025
| * [pprof](https://pkg.go.dev/net/http/pprof) profiling endpoints for CPU and memory profiling | ||
| * Prometheus [/metrics](https://prometheus.io/docs/guides/go-application/#how-go-exposition-works) endpoint for exporting Go runtime metrics | ||
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| The k6 REST API must be enabled for these endpoints to be available (this is the default behavior). |
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What?
It adds documentation for the new endpoint
/metricsadded when the option--profiling-enabled. The pull request with the implementation grafana/k6#4944.Checklist
npm startcommand locally and verified that the changes look good.docs/sources/k6/nextfolder of the documentation.Related PR(s)/Issue(s)