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Version: 2.8

Control API

The control API can be used to

  • expose APISIX internal state
  • control the behavior of a single isolate APISIX data panel

By default, the control API server is enabled and listens to 127.0.0.1:9090. You can change it via the control section under apisix in conf/config.yaml:

apisix:
...
enable_control: true
control:
ip: "127.0.0.1"
port: 9090

Note that the control API server should not be configured to listen to the public traffic!

Control API Added via plugin#

Plugin can add its control API when it is enabled. If a plugin adds such a control API, please refer to each plugin's documentation for those APIs.

Plugin independent Control API#

Here is the supported API:

GET /v1/schema#

Introduced since v2.2.

Return the jsonschema used by this APISIX instance in the format below:

{
"main": {
"route": {
"properties": {...}
},
"upstream": {
"properties": {...}
},
...
},
"plugins": {
"example-plugin": {
"consumer_schema": {...},
"metadata_schema": {...},
"schema": {...},
"type": ...,
"priority": 0,
"version": 0.1
},
...
}
}

For plugins part, only enabled plugins will be returned. Some plugins may lack of fields like consumer_schema or type, it is depended on by the plugin's definition.

GET /v1/healthcheck#

Introduced since v2.3.

Return current health check status in the format below:

[
{
"healthy_nodes": [
{
"host": "127.0.0.1",
"port": 1980,
"priority": 0,
"weight": 1
}
],
"name": "upstream#/upstreams/1",
"nodes": [
{
"host": "127.0.0.1",
"port": 1980,
"priority": 0,
"weight": 1
},
{
"host": "127.0.0.2",
"port": 1988,
"priority": 0,
"weight": 1
}
],
"src_id": "1",
"src_type": "upstreams"
},
{
"healthy_nodes": [
{
"host": "127.0.0.1",
"port": 1980,
"priority": 0,
"weight": 1
}
],
"name": "upstream#/routes/1",
"nodes": [
{
"host": "127.0.0.1",
"port": 1980,
"priority": 0,
"weight": 1
},
{
"host": "127.0.0.1",
"port": 1988,
"priority": 0,
"weight": 1
}
],
"src_id": "1",
"src_type": "routes"
}
]

Each entry contains fields below:

  • src_type: where the health checker comes from. The value is one of ["routes", "services", "upstreams"].
  • src_id: the id of object which creates the health checker. For example, if Upstream object with id 1 creates a health checker, the src_type is upstreams and the src_id is 1.
  • name: the name of the health checker.
  • nodes: the target nodes of the health checker.
  • healthy_nodes: the healthy node known by the health checker.

User can also use /v1/healthcheck/$src_type/$src_id can get the status of a health checker.

For example, GET /v1/healthcheck/upstreams/1 returns:

{
"healthy_nodes": [
{
"host": "127.0.0.1",
"port": 1980,
"priority": 0,
"weight": 1
}
],
"name": "upstream#/upstreams/1",
"nodes": [
{
"host": "127.0.0.1",
"port": 1980,
"priority": 0,
"weight": 1
},
{
"host": "127.0.0.2",
"port": 1988,
"priority": 0,
"weight": 1
}
],
"src_id": "1",
"src_type": "upstreams"
}

POST /v1/gc#

Introduced since v2.8.

Trigger a full GC in the http subsystem. Note that when you enable stream proxy, APISIX will run another Lua VM for the stream subsystem. It won't trigger a full GC in this Lua VM .