# How to Monitor Harbor's Performance and Health: Complete Observability Guide

> Monitor Harbor performance and health with Prometheus and Grafana. Explore our guide to leveraging Harbor's health status API and metrics for production-grade observability.

- Repository: [Harbor/harbor](https://github.com/goharbor/harbor)
- Tags: how-to-guide
- Published: 2026-04-09

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**Harbor exposes comprehensive health status via `GET /api/v2.0/health` and Prometheus metrics via `/metrics` when `METRIC_ENABLE` is set to true, enabling seamless integration with Prometheus and Grafana for production-grade monitoring.**

Harbor is an open-source container registry that provides security, identity, and management for container images. To ensure your registry remains reliable in production environments, you need to monitor Harbor's performance and health continuously through its built-in observability stack.

## Understanding Harbor's Health Architecture

Harbor's monitoring system consists of three core