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Prometheus

An open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit originally built at SoundCloud. Prometheus collects and stores metrics as time series data and provides a powerful query language (PromQL) for analysis.

agent native

Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Prometheus the way a machine reads it — 45 machine-readable artifacts across 14 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Prometheus scores 53.6/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 73/100 (agent native). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 53.6/100 · developing
Contract Quality 19.1 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 10.4 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 5.5 / 13
Governance 4.1 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 73/100 · agent native
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 6 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Prometheus

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Prometheus. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 14

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Prometheus Remote Write API

The Prometheus Remote Write API defines a standard protocol for sending time series data from Prometheus or compatible agents to remote storage backends via HTTP POST with Snapp...

Prometheus Client Libraries

Prometheus provides official client libraries for Go, Java/Scala, Python, Ruby, and Rust that enable application instrumentation. Libraries implement the Prometheus metric types...

Prometheus Admin API

Administrative endpoints for TSDB management including snapshots and tombstone cleanup. Requires --web.enable-admin-api flag.

Prometheus Alerts API

Endpoints for listing and creating alerts in the Alertmanager.

Prometheus Lifecycle API

Endpoints for managing the Prometheus server lifecycle including configuration reloads and graceful shutdown. Requires --web.enable-lifecycle flag.

Prometheus Metadata API

Endpoints for querying label names, label values, series metadata, and metric metadata without executing PromQL expressions.

Prometheus Metrics API

Endpoints for pushing, replacing, and deleting metric groups. Metrics are grouped by job and optional additional labels.

Prometheus Query API

PromQL instant and range query endpoints for evaluating expressions against the time series database.

Prometheus Receivers API

Endpoints for listing configured alert receivers.

Prometheus Rules API

Endpoints for retrieving loaded recording rules and alerting rules.

Prometheus Silences API

Endpoints for creating, listing, updating, and expiring silences that mute matching alerts.

Prometheus Status API

Endpoints for retrieving Alertmanager configuration, cluster status, and version information.

Prometheus Targets API

Endpoints for discovering scrape targets and their current health status.

Prometheus TSDB API

Endpoints for querying TSDB statistics and deleting time series data.

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Open Collections 4

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Prometheus HTTP API

OPEN COLLECTION

Prometheus Management API

OPEN COLLECTION

Arazzo Workflows 15

Real integrations are rarely a single call. Arazzo describes the multi-step sequences — auth, then create, then confirm — so both a human and an agent can follow the choreography, not just the endpoints.

Multi-step API workflows described with the Arazzo specification.

Prometheus Triage an Alert That Never Notified

Follow one alert from its rule, through Prometheus, into Alertmanager, to find where it stopped.

ARAZZO

Prometheus Delete Series and Reclaim the Space

Preview what a selector matches, delete it, clean the tombstones, and verify.

ARAZZO

Prometheus Discover and Query a Metric

Walk from "what metrics exist?" to an evaluated PromQL result.

ARAZZO

Prometheus Expire a Silence Early

Find an active silence, inspect what it mutes, expire it, and confirm it is gone.

ARAZZO

Prometheus Run a Large PromQL Expression via POST

Evaluate an expression too long for a URL, first instant then across a range.

ARAZZO

Prometheus Purge a Retired Job's Pushed Metrics

Find a stale metric group left by a decommissioned job and delete it.

ARAZZO

Prometheus Push Batch Job Metrics to the Pushgateway

Publish a short-lived job's results so Prometheus can scrape them after the job exits.

ARAZZO

Prometheus Manage a Grouped Metric Group End to End

Push, update, verify, and tear down metrics scoped by instance-level grouping labels.

ARAZZO

Prometheus Chart a Range Query and Pull Its Exemplars

Validate an expression, graph it over a time range, then link the spikes to traces.

ARAZZO

Prometheus Reload Configuration and Verify It Applied

Trigger a config reload and prove the new configuration and rules are live.

ARAZZO

Prometheus Verify Server Readiness After a Restart

Confirm a restarted or upgraded server is healthy, past WAL replay, and running the expected build.

ARAZZO

Prometheus Silence a Firing Alert

Find a firing alert, silence it by its labels, and confirm the silence took hold.

ARAZZO

Prometheus Test an Alertmanager Routing Path

Send a synthetic alert and follow it through to the receiver that will be paged.

ARAZZO

Prometheus Troubleshoot a Missing Scrape Target

Work out why a target's metrics are missing — dropped, down, or never configured.

ARAZZO

Prometheus Take a TSDB Snapshot for Backup

Size the TSDB, snapshot it, and capture the snapshot directory name.

ARAZZO

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MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

prometheus-mcp.yml

MCP SERVER

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Prometheus Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Event Specifications 1

Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Prometheus Alertmanager Webhook Events

The Prometheus Alertmanager webhook receiver sends HTTP POST requests to configured endpoints when alert groups are triggered. Each webhook payload contains a group of alerts sh...

ASYNCAPI

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Prometheus Context

0 classes · 13 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

Prometheus API Rules

3 rules · 1 errors · 1 warnings

SPECTRAL

Prometheus API Rules

6 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 1

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Prometheus Authentication

0 schemes

SECURITY

Prometheus Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Prometheus Agentic Access

47 operations · 17 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

47 operations · 17 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Prometheus — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Company 2

The organization behind the API

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