# Prometheus HTTP API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/scalable-services/prometheus/  
**Provider:** Scalable Services — https://apis.io/providers/scalable-services/  
**Documentation:** https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/querying/api/

Prometheus HTTP API is one of 14 APIs that [Scalable Services](https://apis.io/providers/scalable-services/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Alerts, Metrics, Monitoring, and Observability. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

Prometheus exposes an HTTP API for querying metrics, metadata, and alerting rules. Essential for observability and autoscaling decisions in scalable service architectures.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/querying/api/
- **GitHub** — https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus

## Other Scalable Services APIs (12)

- [Envoy Admin API](https://apis.io/apis/scalable-services/envoy-admin/)
- [Istio API](https://apis.io/apis/scalable-services/istio/)
- [AWS Lambda API](https://apis.io/apis/scalable-services/aws-lambda/)
- [Kong Admin API](https://apis.io/apis/scalable-services/kong-admin/)
- [Knative API](https://apis.io/apis/scalable-services/knative/)
- [gRPC Reflection API](https://apis.io/apis/scalable-services/grpc/)
- [Scalable Services ConfigMaps API](https://apis.io/apis/scalable-services/scalable-services-configmaps-api/)
- [Scalable Services Namespaces API](https://apis.io/apis/scalable-services/scalable-services-namespaces-api/)
- [Scalable Services Nodes API](https://apis.io/apis/scalable-services/scalable-services-nodes-api/)
- [Scalable Services PersistentVolumes API](https://apis.io/apis/scalable-services/scalable-services-persistentvolumes-api/)
- [Scalable Services Pods API](https://apis.io/apis/scalable-services/scalable-services-pods-api/)
- [Scalable Services Secrets API](https://apis.io/apis/scalable-services/scalable-services-secrets-api/)

## Tags

Alerts, Metrics, Monitoring, Observability

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