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API Definition

Configuration

# API definition
[api]
  # Name of the related entry point
  #
  # Optional
  # Default: "traefik"
  #
  entryPoint = "traefik"

  # Enabled Dashboard
  #
  # Optional
  # Default: true
  #
  dashboard = true

  # Enable debug mode.
  # This will install HTTP handlers to expose Go expvars under /debug/vars and
  # pprof profiling data under /debug/pprof.
  # Additionally, the log level will be set to DEBUG.
  #
  # Optional
  # Default: false
  #
  debug = true

For more customization, see entry points documentation and examples.

Web UI

API

Path	Method	Description
/	GET	Provides a simple HTML frontend of Træfik
/health	GET	JSON health metrics
/api	GET	Configuration for all providers
/api/providers	GET	Providers
/api/providers/{provider}	GET, PUT	Get or update provider (1)
/api/providers/{provider}/backends	GET	List backends
/api/providers/{provider}/backends/{backend}	GET	Get backend
/api/providers/{provider}/backends/{backend}/servers	GET	List servers in backend
/api/providers/{provider}/backends/{backend}/servers/{server}	GET	Get a server in a backend
/api/providers/{provider}/frontends	GET	List frontends
/api/providers/{provider}/frontends/{frontend}	GET	Get a frontend
/api/providers/{provider}/frontends/{frontend}/routes	GET	List routes in a frontend
/api/providers/{provider}/frontends/{frontend}/routes/{route}	GET	Get a route in a frontend

<1> See Rest for more information.

Warning

For compatibility reason, when you activate the rest provider, you can use web or rest as provider value. But be careful, in the configuration for all providers the key is still web.

Address / Port

You can define a custom address/port like this:

defaultEntryPoints = ["http"]

[entryPoints]
  [entryPoints.http]
  address = ":80"

  [entryPoints.foo]
  address = ":8082"

  [entryPoints.bar]
  address = ":8083"

[ping]
entryPoint = "foo"

[api]
entryPoint = "bar"

In the above example, you would access a regular path, administration panel, and health-check as follows:

• Regular path: http://hostname:80/path
• Admin Panel: http://hostname:8083/
• Ping URL: http://hostname:8082/ping

In the above example, it is very important to create a named dedicated entry point, and do not include it in defaultEntryPoints. Otherwise, you are likely to expose all services via that entry point.

Custom Path

You can define a custom path like this:

defaultEntryPoints = ["http"]

[entryPoints]
  [entryPoints.http]
  address = ":80"

  [entryPoints.foo]
  address = ":8080"

  [entryPoints.bar]
  address = ":8081"

# Activate API and Dashboard
[api]
entryPoint = "bar"
dashboard = true

[file]
  [backends]
    [backends.backend1]
      [backends.backend1.servers.server1]
      url = "http://127.0.0.1:8081"

  [frontends]
    [frontends.frontend1]
    entryPoints = ["foo"]
    backend = "backend1"
      [frontends.frontend1.routes.test_1]
      rule = "PathPrefixStrip:/yourprefix;PathPrefix:/yourprefix"

Authentication

You can define the authentication like this:

defaultEntryPoints = ["http"]

[entryPoints]
  [entryPoints.http]
  address = ":80"

 [entryPoints.foo]
   address=":8080"
   [entryPoints.foo.auth]
     [entryPoints.foo.auth.basic]
       users = [
         "test:$apr1$H6uskkkW$IgXLP6ewTrSuBkTrqE8wj/",
         "test2:$apr1$d9hr9HBB$4HxwgUir3HP4EsggP/QNo0",
       ]

[api]
entrypoint="foo"

For more information, see entry points .

Provider call example

curl -s "http://localhost:8080/api" | jq .

{
  "file": {
    "frontends": {
      "frontend2": {
        "routes": {
          "test_2": {
            "rule": "Path:/test"
          }
        },
        "backend": "backend1"
      },
      "frontend1": {
        "routes": {
          "test_1": {
            "rule": "Host:test.localhost"
          }
        },
        "backend": "backend2"
      }
    },
    "backends": {
      "backend2": {
        "loadBalancer": {
          "method": "drr"
        },
        "servers": {
          "server2": {
            "weight": 2,
            "URL": "http://172.17.0.5:80"
          },
          "server1": {
            "weight": 1,
            "url": "http://172.17.0.4:80"
          }
        }
      },
      "backend1": {
        "loadBalancer": {
          "method": "wrr"
        },
        "circuitBreaker": {
          "expression": "NetworkErrorRatio() > 0.5"
        },
        "servers": {
          "server2": {
            "weight": 1,
            "url": "http://172.17.0.3:80"
          },
          "server1": {
            "weight": 10,
            "url": "http://172.17.0.2:80"
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Health

curl -s "http://localhost:8080/health" | jq .

{
  // Træfik PID
  "pid": 2458,
  // Træfik server uptime (formated time)
  "uptime": "39m6.885931127s",
  //  Træfik server uptime in seconds
  "uptime_sec": 2346.885931127,
  // current server date
  "time": "2015-10-07 18:32:24.362238909 +0200 CEST",
  // current server date in seconds
  "unixtime": 1444235544,
  // count HTTP response status code in realtime
  "status_code_count": {
    "502": 1
  },
  // count HTTP response status code since Træfik started
  "total_status_code_count": {
    "200": 7,
    "404": 21,
    "502": 13
  },
  // count HTTP response
  "count": 1,
  // count HTTP response
  "total_count": 41,
  // sum of all response time (formated time)
  "total_response_time": "35.456865605s",
  // sum of all response time in seconds
  "total_response_time_sec": 35.456865605,
  // average response time (formated time)
  "average_response_time": "864.8016ms",
  // average response time in seconds
  "average_response_time_sec": 0.8648016000000001,

  // request statistics [requires --statistics to be set]
  // ten most recent requests with 4xx and 5xx status codes
  "recent_errors": [
    {
      // status code
      "status_code": 500,
      // description of status code
      "status": "Internal Server Error",
      // request HTTP method
      "method": "GET",
      // request hostname
      "host": "localhost",
      // request path
      "path": "/path",
      // RFC 3339 formatted date/time
      "time": "2016-10-21T16:59:15.418495872-07:00"
    }
  ]
}

Metrics

You can enable Traefik to export internal metrics to different monitoring systems.

[api]
  # ...

  # Enable more detailed statistics.
  [api.statistics]

    # Number of recent errors logged.
    #
    # Default: 10
    #
    recentErrors = 10

  # ...

Path	Method	Description
/metrics	GET	Export internal metrics