prometheus

Monitoring system and time-series database.

Last updated: 2026-05-11 Report error

Syntax

$prometheus [OPTIONS]

Examples

$prometheus --config.file=/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml

Examples

$prometheus --web.listen-address=:9090

Typical use cases

Start server

prometheus --config.file=/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml

Set port

prometheus --web.listen-address=:9090

Note Collects metrics via pull model and stores them as time series.

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