WSGI

To use Prometheus with WSGI, there is make_wsgi_app which creates a WSGI application.

from prometheus_client import make_wsgi_app
from wsgiref.simple_server import make_server

app = make_wsgi_app()
httpd = make_server('', 8000, app)
httpd.serve_forever()

Such an application can be useful when integrating Prometheus metrics with WSGI apps.

The method start_wsgi_server can be used to serve the metrics through the WSGI reference implementation in a new thread.

from prometheus_client import start_wsgi_server

start_wsgi_server(8000)

By default, the WSGI application will respect Accept-Encoding:gzip headers used by Prometheus and compress the response if such a header is present. This behaviour can be disabled by passing disable_compression=True when creating the app, like this:

app = make_wsgi_app(disable_compression=True)