Temporal Cloud OpenMetrics
Future pricing may apply to high-volume usage that exceeds standard limits.
Temporal Cloud's OpenMetrics endpoint provides operational metrics for your Temporal Cloud workloads in industry-standard Prometheus format, enabling comprehensive monitoring across Namespaces, Workflows, and Task Queues with your existing observability stack.
Quick Links
- Integrations - Get started exporting metrics with common integrations
- API Documentation - Endpoint specification and advanced configuration
- Metrics Reference - Complete catalog of all metrics with descriptions and labels
- Migration Guide - Guide on how to transition from the Prometheus query endpoint
Overview
Temporal Cloud OpenMetrics exposes 50+ metrics covering workflow lifecycles, task queue operations, service performance, and system limits. All metrics are aggregated over one-minute windows and available for scraping within three minutes. Each scrape returns only the most recently completed one-minute window—configure your monitoring system to retain what it scrapes.
- Set up authentication and scraping with the API documentation.
- Browse the complete metrics catalog for descriptions and labels.
- Teams using the query endpoint should review the migration guide.
API key authentication
Create a service account with the "Metrics Read-Only" role, generate an API key, and start scraping immediately - no certificate rotation or distribution required.
Global endpoint
This is a single endpoint at metrics.temporal.io which serves all metrics across your entire account with API key authentication and standard HTTPS.
Namespace and metric filtering
You can use query parameters to enable selective scraping to manage data volume and costs, which support wildcards for flexible namespace selection and specific metric filtering.
Dashboard templates
Production-ready Grafana dashboards provide immediate visibility with pre-built queries and visualizations.