Monitoring
prometheus
Monitoring system and time-series database.
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Verified: 2026-05-11
Syntax
$prometheus [OPTIONS]
Examples
$prometheus --config.file=/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml
$prometheus --web.listen-address=:9090
Typical use cases
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Standard usage
prometheus --help
Note
Collects metrics via pull model and stores them as time series.
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