server-info

Description

server-info is a plugin that reports basic server information to etcd periodically.

The meaning of each item in server information is following:

Name	Type	Description
boot_time	integer	Bootstrap time (UNIX timestamp) of the APISIX instance, value will be reset when you hot updating APISIX but is kept for intact if you just reloading APISIX.
id	string	APISIX instance id.
etcd_version	string	The etcd cluster version that APISIX is using, value will be "unknown" if the network (to etcd) is partitioned.
version	string	APISIX version.
hostname	string	Hostname of the machine/pod that APISIX is deployed.

Attributes

None

API

This plugin exposes one API /v1/server_info to Control API.

How to Enable

Just configure server-info in the plugin list of the configuration file conf/config.yaml.

plugins:                          # plugin list
  - example-plugin
  - limit-req
  - node-status
  - server-info
  - jwt-auth
  - zipkin
  ......

How to customize the server info report configurations

We can change the report configurations in the plugin_attr section of conf/config.yaml.

Name	Type	Default	Description
report_ttl	integer	36	the live time for server info in etcd (unit: second, maximum: 86400, minimum: 3).

Here is an example, which modifies the report_ttl to one minute.

plugin_attr:
  server-info:
    report_ttl: 60

Test Plugin

After enabling this plugin, you can access these data through the plugin Control API:

$ curl http://127.0.0.1:9090/v1/server_info -s | jq .
{
  "etcd_version": "3.5.0",
  "id": "b7ce1c5c-b1aa-4df7-888a-cbe403f3e948",
  "hostname": "fedora32",
  "version": "2.1",
  "boot_time": 1608522102
}

The APISIX Dashboard will collects server info in etcd, so you may also try to check them through Dashboard.

Disable Plugin

Remove server-info in the plugin list of configure file conf/config.yaml.

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