# Monitoring

Spice Cloud exposes a [Prometheus-compatible metrics endpoint](https://docs.spice.ai/api/metrics) (`/v1/metrics`) on each app instance. Use it to scrape runtime metrics and build dashboards and alerts in your monitoring platform of choice.

```bash
curl https://<app-cname>.spiceai.io/v1/metrics \
  -H "X-API-Key: <API_KEY>"
```

Pre-built dashboards and setup guides are available:

* [Portal](https://docs.spice.ai/monitoring/monitoring/portal) - Built-in monitoring dashboard in the Spice.ai Cloud portal
* [Grafana & Prometheus](https://docs.spice.ai/monitoring/monitoring/grafana) - Scrape metrics with Prometheus, visualize in Grafana
* [Datadog](https://docs.spice.ai/monitoring/monitoring/datadog) - Scrape metrics with the Datadog Agent's OpenMetrics integration
* [Zipkin](https://docs.spice.ai/monitoring/monitoring/zipkin) - Distributed tracing with Zipkin

For the full list of available metrics, see the [Metrics API reference](https://docs.spice.ai/api/metrics#available-metrics).

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The metrics endpoint provides Spice runtime metrics only. Kubernetes pod-level metrics (CPU, memory, etc.) are not currently included.
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