Scalability

Prometheus HTTP API

Prometheus is the de-facto open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit for cloud-native applications and a CNCF graduate project. The Prometheus HTTP API provides access to time series data, metadata, and administrative functions used extensively in scalability engineering to track metrics and inform autoscaling decisions.

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Documentation

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Documentation
https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/querying/api/
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GettingStarted
https://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/first_steps/

Specifications

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OpenAPI
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/prometheus/prometheus/main/web/api/v1/api.go

Other Resources

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GitHub
https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus

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