express-gateway VS client_golang

Express Gateway: A microservices API Gateway built on Express.js. It's entirely extensible and framework agnostic, delivering robust, scalable solutions in no time.

Next, review deployment complexity such as DB-less versus database-backed deployments. For example, Kong does require running Cassandra or Postgres. Apigee requires Cassandra, Zookeeper, and Postgres to run, while other solutions like Express Gateway and Tyk only require Redis. Apache APISIX uses etcd as its data store, it stores and manages routing-related and plugin-related configurations in etcd in the Data Plane.

This post will show you how to build a policy (middleware) for your express gateway. Before creating a policy, we need to create a plugin.

Prometheus, an open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit, has client libraries that allow you to instrument your services in a variety of languages. Here's an example of how you might use the Go client library to expose metrics on an HTTP endpoint. We will leverage the prometheus go client to expose metrics and create them.

Monitoring prometheus, grafana

I'd recommend github.com/victoriametrics/metrics for exporting custom metrics in Prometheus format. It is easier to use than the github.com/prometheus/client_golang.

Start at the official documentation and the Go client library .

DataDog can read Prometheus metrics. Note that this approach works for metrics but not for traces although you can configure DataDog to receive OpenTelemetry traces as well https://github.com/prometheus/client_golang

For Go, the standard is to use Prometheus and the Prometheus Go client library.