# Own Your Observability: Supabase Metrics API

DevFeed: [Own Your Observability: Supabase Metrics API](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/own-your-observability-supabase-metrics-api-452.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://supabase.com/blog/metrics-api-observability>)

Author: Steven Eubank

Published: 2025-12-16T07:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Supabase Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/supabase-blog.md>)

Topics: [Supabase](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/supabase.md>), [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>), [telemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/telemetry.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/observability.md>), [Prometheus](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/prometheus.md>), [Grafana](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/grafana.md>), [Grafana Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/grafana-cloud.md>), [datadog agent](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/datadog-agent.md>), [Amazon Web Services](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aws.md>), [Self-hosted](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/self-hosted.md>)

Tags: [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [aws](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws.md>), [datadog-agent](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/datadog-agent.md>), [grafana](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/grafana.md>), [grafana-cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/grafana-cloud.md>), [metrics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/metrics.md>), [monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/monitoring.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/observability.md>), [prometheus](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/prometheus.md>), [replication](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/replication.md>), [self-hosted](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/self-hosted.md>), [storage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/storage.md>), [telemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/telemetry.md>), [visualization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/visualization.md>)

## AI overview

Supabase's Metrics API streams roughly 200 Postgres performance and health metrics in Prometheus exposition format, enabling integration with Grafana Cloud, Datadog, AWS Managed Prometheus, self-hosted Grafana, and other Prometheus-compatible backends. The article explains how this unifies database telemetry with existing observability stacks for monitoring, visualization, alerting, and troubleshooting.

## Source excerpt

Stream your Supabase database telemetry into any Prometheus-compatible observability stack with the Metrics API. Full control over monitoring, visualization, and alerting.