Recommend to get promtool from a binary distribution.

Rather than compile it yourself, which doesn't work as shown anymore
because of Go Modules.

Signed-off-by: beorn7 <beorn@grafana.com>
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beorn7 2021-02-15 21:59:32 +01:00
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@ -20,14 +20,16 @@ process. The changes are only applied if all rule files are well-formatted.
## Syntax-checking rules
To quickly check whether a rule file is syntactically correct without starting
a Prometheus server, install and run Prometheus's `promtool` command-line
utility tool:
a Prometheus server, you can use Prometheus's `promtool` command-line utility
tool:
```bash
go get github.com/prometheus/prometheus/cmd/promtool
promtool check rules /path/to/example.rules.yml
```
The `promtool` binary is part of the `prometheus` archive offered on the
project's [download page](https://prometheus.io/download/).
When the file is syntactically valid, the checker prints a textual
representation of the parsed rules to standard output and then exits with
a `0` return status.