Prometheus Query API

openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Prometheus Alertmanager Admin Query API
  description: The Prometheus Alertmanager HTTP API v2 provides endpoints for querying active alert status, creating and managing silences, retrieving receiver configurations, and checking cluster peer status. Alertmanager deduplicates, groups, and routes alert notifications to receivers such as email, PagerDuty, Slack, and OpsGenie. The API base path is /api/v2.
  version: v0.28.0
  contact:
    name: Prometheus Project
    url: https://prometheus.io/community/
  license:
    name: Apache 2.0
    url: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
servers:
- url: http://{host}:{port}
  description: Alertmanager server
  variables:
    host:
      default: localhost
      description: Alertmanager server hostname
    port:
      default: '9093'
      description: Alertmanager server port
tags:
- name: Query
  description: PromQL instant and range query endpoints for evaluating expressions against the time series database.
paths:
  /api/v1/query:
    get:
      operationId: queryInstant
      summary: Prometheus Execute instant query
      description: Evaluates a PromQL expression at a single point in time. Returns a vector of time series with their values at the specified time. If the time parameter is omitted, the current server time is used.
      tags:
      - Query
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/QueryExpr'
      - name: time
        in: query
        description: Evaluation timestamp as a Unix timestamp or RFC3339 string. Defaults to current server time.
        schema:
          type: string
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Timeout'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Query executed successfully
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/QueryResponse'
        '400':
          description: Bad request — invalid query expression or parameters
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
        '422':
          description: Unprocessable entity — expression cannot be executed
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
        '503':
          description: Query timed out or was aborted
    post:
      operationId: queryInstantPost
      summary: Prometheus Execute instant query (POST)
      description: Evaluates a PromQL expression at a single point in time using a POST request body. Use POST when query parameters exceed URL length limits.
      tags:
      - Query
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/x-www-form-urlencoded:
            schema:
              type: object
              required:
              - query
              properties:
                query:
                  type: string
                  description: PromQL expression to evaluate.
                time:
                  type: string
                  description: Evaluation timestamp.
                timeout:
                  type: string
                  description: Evaluation timeout.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Query executed successfully
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/QueryResponse'
        '400':
          description: Bad request
  /api/v1/query_range:
    get:
      operationId: queryRange
      summary: Prometheus Execute range query
      description: Evaluates a PromQL expression over a range of time, returning a matrix of time series with values at each step interval. Used for generating graphs and time-based analysis.
      tags:
      - Query
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/QueryExpr'
      - name: start
        in: query
        required: true
        description: Start of the time range as a Unix timestamp or RFC3339 string.
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: end
        in: query
        required: true
        description: End of the time range as a Unix timestamp or RFC3339 string.
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: step
        in: query
        required: true
        description: Query resolution step width as a duration string (e.g., 15s, 1m, 1h).
        schema:
          type: string
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Timeout'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Range query executed successfully
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/QueryResponse'
        '400':
          description: Bad request — invalid query or time parameters
        '422':
          description: Unprocessable query expression
    post:
      operationId: queryRangePost
      summary: Prometheus Execute range query (POST)
      description: Evaluates a PromQL expression over a range of time using a POST request body. Use POST when query parameters exceed URL length limits.
      tags:
      - Query
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/x-www-form-urlencoded:
            schema:
              type: object
              required:
              - query
              - start
              - end
              - step
              properties:
                query:
                  type: string
                  description: PromQL expression to evaluate.
                start:
                  type: string
                  description: Start of the time range.
                end:
                  type: string
                  description: End of the time range.
                step:
                  type: string
                  description: Query resolution step width.
                timeout:
                  type: string
                  description: Evaluation timeout.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Range query executed successfully
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/QueryResponse'
        '400':
          description: Bad request
  /api/v1/query_exemplars:
    get:
      operationId: queryExemplars
      summary: Prometheus Query exemplars
      description: Returns a list of exemplars for a given PromQL expression over a time range. Exemplars are specific trace or log IDs attached to high-value metric observations that link metrics to traces.
      tags:
      - Query
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/QueryExpr'
      - name: start
        in: query
        required: true
        description: Start of the time range.
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: end
        in: query
        required: true
        description: End of the time range.
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Exemplars returned successfully
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ExemplarResponse'
        '400':
          description: Bad request
components:
  schemas:
    SamplePair:
      type: array
      description: A [timestamp, value] pair where timestamp is a Unix float and value is a string-encoded float.
      prefixItems:
      - type: number
        description: Unix timestamp as a float.
      - type: string
        description: Metric value as a string-encoded float (including Inf, -Inf, NaN).
      minItems: 2
      maxItems: 2
    VectorSample:
      type: object
      description: A single time series with one value at a specific timestamp (instant query result).
      required:
      - metric
      - value
      properties:
        metric:
          type: object
          additionalProperties:
            type: string
          description: Label set identifying this time series.
        value:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/SamplePair'
    MatrixSeries:
      type: object
      description: A time series with multiple values over a time range (range query result).
      required:
      - metric
      - values
      properties:
        metric:
          type: object
          additionalProperties:
            type: string
          description: Label set identifying this time series.
        values:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/SamplePair'
          description: Array of timestamp-value pairs over the queried time range.
    ErrorResponse:
      type: object
      description: Error response from the Prometheus API.
      required:
      - status
      - errorType
      - error
      properties:
        status:
          type: string
          enum:
          - error
        errorType:
          type: string
          description: Category of the error.
          enum:
          - timeout
          - canceled
          - execution
          - bad_data
          - internal
          - unavailable
          - not_found
        error:
          type: string
          description: Human-readable error message.
        warnings:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
          description: Warnings that occurred alongside the error.
    ExemplarResponse:
      type: object
      description: Response containing exemplars for a query.
      required:
      - status
      - data
      properties:
        status:
          type: string
          enum:
          - success
          - error
        data:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ExemplarData'
    QueryResponse:
      type: object
      description: Standard response envelope for query results.
      required:
      - status
      - data
      properties:
        status:
          type: string
          description: Request status — success or error.
          enum:
          - success
          - error
        data:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/QueryData'
        errorType:
          type: string
          description: Type of error if status is error.
        error:
          type: string
          description: Error message if status is error.
        warnings:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
          description: Non-fatal warnings encountered during query execution.
    ScalarValue:
      type: array
      description: A scalar value at a timestamp.
      prefixItems:
      - type: number
        description: Unix timestamp.
      - type: string
        description: Scalar value.
      minItems: 2
      maxItems: 2
    ExemplarData:
      type: object
      description: Exemplar data for a metric series.
      properties:
        seriesLabels:
          type: object
          additionalProperties:
            type: string
          description: Labels identifying the metric series.
        exemplars:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
            properties:
              labels:
                type: object
                additionalProperties:
                  type: string
                description: Exemplar labels including trace ID.
              value:
                type: string
                description: Metric value at the exemplar timestamp.
              timestamp:
                type: number
                description: Unix timestamp of the exemplar.
    QueryData:
      type: object
      description: The result data from a query, containing the result type and values.
      required:
      - resultType
      - result
      properties:
        resultType:
          type: string
          description: The type of the result data.
          enum:
          - matrix
          - vector
          - scalar
          - string
        result:
          description: 'The query result. Shape depends on resultType: matrix contains arrays of values over time, vector contains a single value per series, scalar is a single numeric value.'
          oneOf:
          - type: array
            items:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/MatrixSeries'
          - type: array
            items:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/VectorSample'
          - $ref: '#/components/schemas/ScalarValue'
  parameters:
    Timeout:
      name: timeout
      in: query
      description: Evaluation timeout as a duration string (e.g., 30s).
      schema:
        type: string
    QueryExpr:
      name: query
      in: query
      required: true
      description: PromQL expression to evaluate.
      schema:
        type: string
        example: rate(http_requests_total[5m])
externalDocs:
  description: Alertmanager Documentation
  url: https://prometheus.io/docs/alerting/latest/alertmanager/