Can it validate if my application has exposed metrics?

SonarQube
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Hey all,

I was talking to a teammate if we could use a tool like SonarQube to analyze if our application has metrics being exposed (Prometheus metrics, to be clear, /metrics). Since it’s a simple path, I believe it can be done, but the problem is not just if the path exists, but if it has metrics or not.

Thanks!

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Hey there.

What kind of metrics are you looking for?

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Hey Colin,

My service has a /metrics path that exposes metrics for Prometheus. Example from a /metrics path content below:

http_requests_total {example=“example”} 114

All good. The problem is, those metrics could not be working, ie:

http_requests_total {example=“example”} 0

The question is, can we validate it with SonarQube is there’s values being exposed from the /metrics path? Anything greater than 0 should be fine.

Thanks!