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.
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.
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.
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 Alertmanager API
OPEN COLLECTIONPrometheus HTTP API
OPEN COLLECTIONPrometheus Management API
OPEN COLLECTIONPrometheus Pushgateway API
OPEN COLLECTIONArazzo 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.
ARAZZOPrometheus Delete Series and Reclaim the Space
Preview what a selector matches, delete it, clean the tombstones, and verify.
ARAZZOPrometheus Discover and Query a Metric
Walk from "what metrics exist?" to an evaluated PromQL result.
ARAZZOPrometheus Expire a Silence Early
Find an active silence, inspect what it mutes, expire it, and confirm it is gone.
ARAZZOPrometheus Run a Large PromQL Expression via POST
Evaluate an expression too long for a URL, first instant then across a range.
ARAZZOPrometheus Purge a Retired Job's Pushed Metrics
Find a stale metric group left by a decommissioned job and delete it.
ARAZZOPrometheus Push Batch Job Metrics to the Pushgateway
Publish a short-lived job's results so Prometheus can scrape them after the job exits.
ARAZZOPrometheus Manage a Grouped Metric Group End to End
Push, update, verify, and tear down metrics scoped by instance-level grouping labels.
ARAZZOPrometheus Chart a Range Query and Pull Its Exemplars
Validate an expression, graph it over a time range, then link the spikes to traces.
ARAZZOPrometheus Reload Configuration and Verify It Applied
Trigger a config reload and prove the new configuration and rules are live.
ARAZZOPrometheus Verify Server Readiness After a Restart
Confirm a restarted or upgraded server is healthy, past WAL replay, and running the expected build.
ARAZZOPrometheus Silence a Firing Alert
Find a firing alert, silence it by its labels, and confirm the silence took hold.
ARAZZOPrometheus Test an Alertmanager Routing Path
Send a synthetic alert and follow it through to the receiver that will be paged.
ARAZZOPrometheus Troubleshoot a Missing Scrape Target
Work out why a target's metrics are missing — dropped, down, or never configured.
ARAZZOPrometheus Take a TSDB Snapshot for Backup
Size the TSDB, snapshot it, and capture the snapshot directory name.
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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 SERVERPricing 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
RATE LIMITSFinOps 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.
Prometheus Finops
FINOPSEvent 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...
ASYNCAPISemantic 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
JSON-LDSpectral 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
SPECTRALPrometheus API Rules
SPECTRALJSON 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.
Prometheus Metrics and Alerting Schema
JSON SCHEMASecurity 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.
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.
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
Design & Contract 21
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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Build 4
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 4
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Company 2
The organization behind the API
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