# Prometheus HTTP API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/scalability/prometheus-http-api/  
**Provider:** Scalability — https://apis.io/providers/scalability/

Prometheus HTTP API is one of 7 APIs that [Scalability](https://apis.io/providers/scalability/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include CNCF, Metrics, Monitoring, Observability, and Open-Source. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, an OpenAPI specification, and a getting-started guide.

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.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **Documentation** — https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/querying/api/
- **GitHub** — https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus
- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/prometheus/prometheus/main/web/api/v1/api.go
- **GettingStarted** — https://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/first_steps/

## Other Scalability APIs (6)

- [KEDA (Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling) API](https://apis.io/apis/scalability/keda-kubernetes-event-driven-autoscaling-api/)
- [AWS Auto Scaling API](https://apis.io/apis/scalability/aws-auto-scaling-api/)
- [Google Cloud Compute Engine Autoscaler API](https://apis.io/apis/scalability/google-cloud-compute-engine-autoscaler-api/)
- [Azure Autoscale REST API](https://apis.io/apis/scalability/azure-autoscale-rest-api/)
- [CloudWatch Application Signals API](https://apis.io/apis/scalability/cloudwatch-application-signals-api/)
- [Grafana HTTP API](https://apis.io/apis/scalability/grafana-http-api/)

## Tags

CNCF, Metrics, Monitoring, Observability, Open-Source, Prometheus, Time Series

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