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Active HTTP Requests

Metadata

Property Value
Type metric
Domain technology-and-engineering
Status active
Version 1.0

Definition

The number of HTTP requests currently being processed by a service.

Description

Measures the number of HTTP requests that are actively executing at a given point in time, providing visibility into request concurrency and potential request backlogs.

Metric Kind

observed

Unit

requests

Grain

service at a point in time

Dimensions

- service
- instance
- http_method
- environment

Sources

- OpenTelemetry FastAPI instrumentation
- Prometheus

Source

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