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Temporal Cloud OpenMetrics

SUPPORT, STABILITY, and DEPENDENCY INFO

Temporal Cloud OpenMetrics support is available in Public Preview.

PRICING

Future pricing may apply to high-volume usage that exceeds standard limits.

Temporal Cloud's OpenMetrics endpoint provides operational metrics for your Temporal Cloud workloads in industry-standard Prometheus format, enabling comprehensive monitoring across Namespaces, Workflows, and Task Queues with your existing observability stack.

Overview

Temporal Cloud OpenMetrics exposes 30+ metrics covering workflow lifecycles, task queue operations, service performance, and system limits. All metrics are aggregated over one-minute windows and available for scraping within two minutes.

API key authentication

Create a service account with the "Metrics Read-Only" role, generate an API key, and start scraping immediately - no certificate rotation or distribution required.

Global endpoint

This is a single endpoint at metrics.temporal.io which serves all metrics across your entire account with API key authentication and standard HTTPS.

Namespace and metric filtering

You can use query parameters to enable selective scraping to manage data volume and costs, which support wildcards for flexible namespace selection and specific metric filtering.

Dashboard templates

Production-ready Grafana dashboards provide immediate visibility with pre-built queries and visualizations.