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Prometheus Targets Example

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Prometheus Targets Example is an example object payload from Prometheus, with 2 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

requestresponse

Example Payload

{
  "request": {
    "method": "GET",
    "url": "http://localhost:9090/api/v1/targets?state=active"
  },
  "response": {
    "status": "success",
    "data": {
      "activeTargets": [
        {
          "discoveredLabels": {
            "__address__": "localhost:9090",
            "__metrics_path__": "/metrics",
            "__scheme__": "http",
            "job": "prometheus"
          },
          "labels": {
            "instance": "localhost:9090",
            "job": "prometheus"
          },
          "scrapePool": "prometheus",
          "scrapeUrl": "http://localhost:9090/metrics",
          "globalUrl": "http://prometheus.example.com:9090/metrics",
          "lastError": "",
          "lastScrape": "2026-05-25T18:00:01.123456789Z",
          "lastScrapeDuration": 0.0043,
          "health": "up",
          "scrapeInterval": "15s",
          "scrapeTimeout": "10s"
        },
        {
          "discoveredLabels": {
            "__address__": "node-exporter.svc:9100",
            "__metrics_path__": "/metrics",
            "__scheme__": "http",
            "job": "node"
          },
          "labels": {
            "instance": "node-exporter.svc:9100",
            "job": "node"
          },
          "scrapePool": "node",
          "scrapeUrl": "http://node-exporter.svc:9100/metrics",
          "globalUrl": "http://node-exporter.svc.example.com:9100/metrics",
          "lastError": "",
          "lastScrape": "2026-05-25T18:00:01.987654321Z",
          "lastScrapeDuration": 0.0312,
          "health": "up",
          "scrapeInterval": "30s",
          "scrapeTimeout": "10s"
        }
      ],
      "droppedTargets": []
    }
  }
}

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