NAME

       promtool - Tooling for the Prometheus monitoring system

SYNOPSIS

       promtool [<flags>] <command> [<args> ...]

DESCRIPTION

       Tooling for the Prometheus monitoring system.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
              Show context-sensitive help (also try --help-long and --help-man).

       --version
              Show application version.

COMMANDS

   help [<command>...]
       Show help.

   check config <config-files>...
       Check if the config files are valid or not.

   check rules <rule-files>...
       Check if the rule files are valid or not.

   check metrics
       Pass Prometheus metrics over stdin to lint them for consistency and correctness.

       examples:

       $ cat metrics.prom | promtool check metrics

       $ curl -s http://localhost:9090/metrics | promtool check metrics

   update rules <rule-files>...
       Update rules from the 1.x to 2.x format.