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Work with Prometheus

Prometheus is an open-source toolkit designed to build simple and robust monitoring and alerting systems. Flux provides tools for scraping raw Prometheus-formatted metrics from an HTTP-accessible endpoint, writing them to InfluxDB, then processing those raw metrics for visualization in InfluxDB dashboards.

Scrape Prometheus metrics

Use the Flux prometheus.scrape function to scrape Prometheus-formatted metrics from an HTTP-accessible endpoint.

Work with Prometheus metric types

Learn how to use Flux to work with Prometheus’ four main metric types (counter, gauge, histogram, and summary) and process them for visualizations in InfluxDB dashboards.

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