Empty acquisition metrics from lapi container

I'm running helm crowdsec in k3s. I spent a bit of time trying to figure out why

cscli metrics show acquisition

cscli metrics show acquisition

returned an empty table. Turns out this works if I run this against an agent container instead of the lapi container.

This was very non-obvious to me, although is this expected behavior?

blotus•12/15/25, 1:48 PM

Yes, it's expected.
The LAPI pod only expose the local HTTP API, it does not perform any acquisition.

will only display the internal metrics of the local crowdsec process, so because LAPI does not deal with the acquisition, it has nothing to show.

LPs report acquisition metrics to LAPI, but you have to use to see them (we chose to not display them in because it already returns a ton of informations, and this would have made the output almost unreadable)