What logs and metrics are most useful for Traefik?

Discover the most useful logs and metrics for Traefik to enhance your monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities. Understanding these insights helps in optimizing performance and debugging issues effectively.

Traefik, logs, metrics, monitoring, troubleshooting, performance optimization, debugging, HTTP requests, middleware, health checks

Here is an example of how to configure Traefik to capture logs and metrics:


        {
            "api": {
                "insecure": true
            },
            "entryPoints": {
                "web": {
                    "address": ":80"
                }
            },
            "log": {
                "level": "DEBUG",
                "fields": {
                    "request": {
                        "headers": true
                    }
                }
            },
            "metrics": {
                "prometheus": {
                    "bucketSize": 0.05
                }
            }
        }