Builtin services expose internal status of servers, making development and debugging more efficient over brpc. brpc serves builting services via HTTP, which can be easily accessed through curl and browsers. Servers respond plain text or html according to User-Agent in the request header, or you can append ?console=1 to the uri which forces servers to respond plain text. Here's an example running on our machine, check it out for more information about the builtin services. If the listen port is filtered(e.g. only ports in 8000-8999 can be accessed outside data centers in Baidu), you can run rpc_view to launch a proxy or run curl \<SERVER-URL\> inside data centers.
Accessed through browsers:
Accessed through terminal:
To stay safe from attack, you must disable builtin services in the servers on public network, including the ones accessed by proxies(nginx or other http servers). Click here for more details.
version service shows the version of the server。Invoke Server::set_version() to specify version of your server, or brpc would generate a default version in like brpc_server_<service-name1>_<service-name2> ...
health service shows whether this server is alive or not.
protobufs service shows scheme of all the protobuf messages insides the server.
vlog service shows all the VLOG that can be enable(not work with glog).
