yangxikun opened a new issue #3286: URL: https://github.com/apache/apisix/issues/3286
### Issue description Our custom plugins rely on `apisix.plugins.prometheus.exporter.get_prometheus()` return an initialized prometheus instance to create metrics. ### Environment * apisix version (cmd: `apisix version`): 2.2 ### What's the actual result? (including assertion message & call stack if applicable) When apisix start, custom plugins init first, and `apisix.plugins.prometheus.exporter.get_prometheus()` return nil, cause error `attempt to index a nil value`. apisix/plugin.lua: ```lua function _M.init_worker() _M.load() -- some plugins need to be initialized in init* phases if ngx.config.subsystem == "http" then require("apisix.plugins.prometheus.exporter").init() end ...... end ``` ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org