Monitor the health of the SystemLink Enterprise Location Service by using OpenTelemetry metrics and Prometheus metrics

Introduced in October 2025

For information on the metrics emitted by the Location Service and related dependencies, refer to the following tables.
Note You can deploy and configure the OpenTelemetry collector to expose all OpenTelemetry metrics as Prometheus metrics. Then, you can view the Prometheus metrics in a tool such as Grafana.

Location Service

KPI? Metric Type Description Labels
Yes locationservice.path_update_count.total Counter

The total number of location path updates.

Use this metric to understand the number of edited location paths after a location update.

This metric emits after the service edits or deletes each location on the Update Many request or Delete Many request payload.

 locationservice.path_update_count.total.operation: ["update", "delete"]

Location Service Dependencies

To learn about other available performance metrics, refer to the documentation for the Location Service dependencies.

Dependency Where to Find Information
ASP.NET For a list of the metrics provided by ASP.NET, refer to ASP.NET Core metrics and ASP.NET Runtime Metrics.
Kubernetes For a list of the metrics provided by Kubernetes, refer to the Kubernetes Metrics Reference and the kube-state-metrics Documentation on GitHub.
MongoDB For more information on MongoDB, refer to How to Monitor MongoDB.