---
title: Scrape Prometheus metrics
description: Use Telegraf or Flux to scrape Prometheus-formatted metrics from an HTTP-accessible endpoint and store them in InfluxDB.
url: https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/cloud/write-data/developer-tools/scrape-prometheus-metrics/
estimated_tokens: 1473
product: InfluxDB Cloud (TSM)
version: cloud
---

# Scrape Prometheus metrics

Use [Telegraf](/telegraf/v1/)

or the [`prometheus.scrape` Flux function](/flux/v0/stdlib/experimental/prometheus/scrape/) to scrape Prometheus-formatted metrics from an HTTP-accessible endpoint and store them in InfluxDB.

-   [Use Telegraf](#use-telegraf)
-   [Use prometheus.scrape()](#use-prometheusscrape)

## Use Telegraf

To use Telegraf to scrape Prometheus-formatted metrics from an HTTP-accessible endpoint and write them to InfluxDB Cloud , follow these steps:

1. Add the [Prometheus input plugin](/telegraf/v1/plugins/#input-prometheus) to your Telegraf configuration file.
    1. Set the `urls` to scrape metrics from.
    2. Set the `metric_version` configuration option to specify which [metric parsing version](/influxdb/cloud/reference/prometheus-metrics/) to use *(version `2` is recommended)*.
2. Add the [InfluxDB v2 output plugin](/telegraf/v1/plugins/#output-influxdb_v2) to your Telegraf configuration file and configure it to write to InfluxDB Cloud .

##### Example telegraf.conf

```toml
# ...

## Collect Prometheus formatted metrics
[[inputs.prometheus]]
  urls = ["http://example.com/metrics"]
  metric_version = 2

## Write Prometheus formatted metrics to InfluxDB
[[outputs.influxdb_v2]]
  urls = ["http://localhost:8086"]
  token = "$INFLUX_TOKEN"
  organization = "example-org"
  bucket = "example-bucket"

# ...
```

## Use prometheus.scrape()

To use the [`prometheus.scrape()` Flux function](/flux/v0/stdlib/experimental/prometheus/scrape/) to scrape Prometheus-formatted metrics from an HTTP-accessible endpoint and write them to InfluxDB Cloud , do the following in your Flux script:

1. Import the [`experimental/prometheus` package](/flux/v0/stdlib/experimental/prometheus/).
2. Use `prometheus.scrape()` and provide the URL to scrape metrics from.
3. Use [`to()`](/flux/v0/stdlib/influxdata/influxdb/to/) and specify the InfluxDB Cloud bucket to write the scraped metrics to.

##### Example Flux script

```js
import "experimental/prometheus"

prometheus.scrape(url: "http://example.com/metrics")
    |> to(bucket: "example-bucket")
```

4. (Optional) To scrape Prometheus metrics at regular intervals using Flux, add your Flux scraping script as an [InfluxDB task](/influxdb/cloud/process-data/).

*For information about scraping Prometheus-formatted metrics with `prometheus.scrape()`, see [Scrape Prometheus metrics with Flux](/flux/v0/prometheus/scrape-prometheus/).*

#### Related

-   [Telegraf Prometheus input plugin](/telegraf/v1/plugins/#input-prometheus)
-   [Scrape Prometheus metrics](/flux/v0/prometheus/scrape-prometheus/)
-   [prometheus.scrape() function](/flux/v0/stdlib/experimental/prometheus/scrape/)
-   [Work with Prometheus metric types](/flux/v0/prometheus/metric-types/)

[prometheus](/influxdb/cloud/tags/prometheus/)