prometheus-metadata-exporter

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prometheus-metadata-exporter

Utility to get information about all metrics metadata available on a Prometheus instance

Usage

Run the tool specifying the Prometheus instance URL (default "http://localhost:9090") and the output format (default "text")

./prometheus-metadata-exporter -prometheus.url http://<some-server>:<some-port> -format json

The tool will print the results on the standard output; if you want redirect to a file you can use shell redirection

./prometheus-metadata-exporter -prometheus.url http://<some-server>:<some-port> -format json > output.json

Configuration parameter

Flag Name	Description	Default Value
-prometheus.url	Base URL for the Prometheus instance	http://localhost:9090
-format	Output format	text

Output formats

Option	Description
text	Text Format
csv	CSV Format
html	HTML Table Format
md	Markdown Table Format
json	JSON (indented) Format