Promtool --help

promtool --help
usage: promtool [<flags>] <command> [<args> ...]

Tooling for the Prometheus monitoring system.

Flags:
  -h, --help     Show context-sensitive help (also try --help-long and --help-man).
      --version  Show application version.

Commands:
  help [<command>...]
    Show help.

  check config <config-files>...
    Check if the config files are valid or not.

  check web-config <web-config-files>...
    Check if the web config files are valid or not.

  check rules <rule-files>...
    Check if the rule files are valid or not.

  check metrics
    Pass Prometheus metrics over stdin to lint them for consistency and correctness.

    examples:

    $ cat metrics.prom | promtool check metrics

    $ curl -s http://localhost:9090/metrics | promtool check metrics

  query instant [<flags>] <server> <expr>
    Run instant query.

  query range [<flags>] <server> <expr>
    Run range query.

  query series --match=MATCH [<flags>] <server>
    Run series query.

  query labels [<flags>] <server> <name>
    Run labels query.

  debug pprof <server>
    Fetch profiling debug information.

  debug metrics <server>
    Fetch metrics debug information.

  debug all <server>
    Fetch all debug information.

  test rules <test-rule-file>...
    Unit tests for rules.

  tsdb bench write [<flags>] [<file>]
    Run a write performance benchmark.

  tsdb analyze [<flags>] [<db path>] [<block id>]
    Analyze churn, label pair cardinality.

  tsdb list [<flags>] [<db path>]
    List tsdb blocks.

  tsdb dump [<flags>] [<db path>]
    Dump samples from a TSDB.

  tsdb create-blocks-from openmetrics <input file> [<output directory>]
    Import samples from OpenMetrics input and produce TSDB blocks. Please refer to the storage docs for more details.

See also

• Prometheus: Prometheus installation, 9090, storage, Prometheus exporters: Node exporter 9100, Blackbox exporter, Prometheus alertmanager (changelog), Prometheus versions, Prometheus Node exporter releases, promtool, amtool, tsdb, /etc/default/prometheus, /etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml, journalctl -u prometheus, /etc/default/prometheus-node-exporter, PromQL, alert:, Prometheus Operator, Thanos, VictoriaMetrics, PushGateway, Prometheus API, values.yml, Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus