James exposes its logs on the console. Then a fluent bit instance scraps and collects them, before being indexed and used by Kibana, with nice search possibilities.

The way James exposes its logs on the console is defined in the logback.xml configuration file. James currently exposes logs in JSON format using Jackson Json formatter.

James exposes its metrics over an HTTP Webadmin endpoint, something like https://james-web-admin/metrics. Those metrics can be scraped by Prometheus before being visualized on Grafana.

This Helm chart exposes James metrics through Prometheus ServiceMonitor.

You can import the dashboards for James metrics in Grafana defined here.

Be aware that those dashboards still need more work, as we used to export metrics to Elasticsearch not long ago, which required to redo all dashboards. Some enhancements are highly possible and encouraged.

Read more about Metrics in James.