# Prometheus Remote Write

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/prometheus-io/prometheus-remote-write/  
**Provider:** Prometheus — https://apis.io/providers/prometheus-io/  
**Documentation:** https://prometheus.io/docs/specs/prw/remote_write_spec_2_0/

Prometheus Remote Write is one of 21 APIs that [Prometheus](https://apis.io/providers/prometheus-io/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Remote Write, Ingest, Protocol Buffers, and Streaming. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

Remote Write is Prometheus' push protocol for shipping scraped samples to long-term storage and analysis backends (Cortex, Thanos, Mimir, VictoriaMetrics, InfluxDB, Datadog, etc.). Snappy-compressed protocol-buffer payloads POSTed over HTTP. Version 1.0 is stable and widely implemented; version 2.0 (experimental specification) adds native histograms, metadata-per-series, created timestamps, and tighter validation.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **Documentation** — https://prometheus.io/docs/specs/prw/remote_write_spec/
- **Documentation** — https://prometheus.io/docs/specs/prw/remote_write_spec_2_0/
- **ProtoBuf** — https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/blob/main/prompb/remote.proto
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/prometheus-io/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other Prometheus APIs (12)

- [Prometheus Exposition Format / OpenMetrics](https://apis.io/apis/prometheus-io/prometheus-exposition-format/)
- [Prometheus OTLP Metrics Receiver](https://apis.io/apis/prometheus-io/prometheus-otlp-receiver/)
- [Prometheus admin API](https://apis.io/apis/prometheus-io/prometheus-io-admin-api/)
- [Prometheus alert API](https://apis.io/apis/prometheus-io/prometheus-io-alert-api/)
- [Prometheus alertgroup API](https://apis.io/apis/prometheus-io/prometheus-io-alertgroup-api/)
- [Prometheus alerts API](https://apis.io/apis/prometheus-io/prometheus-io-alerts-api/)
- [Prometheus features API](https://apis.io/apis/prometheus-io/prometheus-io-features-api/)
- [Prometheus general API](https://apis.io/apis/prometheus-io/prometheus-io-general-api/)
- [Prometheus labels API](https://apis.io/apis/prometheus-io/prometheus-io-labels-api/)
- [Prometheus metadata API](https://apis.io/apis/prometheus-io/prometheus-io-metadata-api/)
- [Prometheus notifications API](https://apis.io/apis/prometheus-io/prometheus-io-notifications-api/)
- [Prometheus otlp API](https://apis.io/apis/prometheus-io/prometheus-io-otlp-api/)

## Tags

Remote Write, Ingest, Protocol Buffers, Streaming

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