prometheus/docs/command-line/prometheus.md

title
prometheus

prometheus

The Prometheus monitoring server

Flags

Flag	Description	Default
-h, --help	Show context-sensitive help (also try --help-long and --help-man).
--version	Show application version.
--config.file	Prometheus configuration file path.	prometheus.yml
--web.listen-address	Address to listen on for UI, API, and telemetry.	0.0.0.0:9090
--auto-gomemlimit.ratio	The ratio of reserved GOMEMLIMIT memory to the detected maximum container or system memory	0.9
--web.config.file	[EXPERIMENTAL] Path to configuration file that can enable TLS or authentication.
--web.read-timeout	Maximum duration before timing out read of the request, and closing idle connections.	5m
--web.max-connections	Maximum number of simultaneous connections.	512
--web.external-url	The URL under which Prometheus is externally reachable (for example, if Prometheus is served via a reverse proxy). Used for generating relative and absolute links back to Prometheus itself. If the URL has a path portion, it will be used to prefix all HTTP endpoints served by Prometheus. If omitted, relevant URL components will be derived automatically.
--web.route-prefix	Prefix for the internal routes of web endpoints. Defaults to path of --web.external-url.
--web.user-assets	Path to static asset directory, available at /user.
--web.enable-lifecycle	Enable shutdown and reload via HTTP request.	false
--web.enable-admin-api	Enable API endpoints for admin control actions.	false
--web.enable-remote-write-receiver	Enable API endpoint accepting remote write requests.	false
--web.console.templates	Path to the console template directory, available at /consoles.	consoles
--web.console.libraries	Path to the console library directory.	console_libraries
--web.page-title	Document title of Prometheus instance.	Prometheus Time Series Collection and Processing Server
--web.cors.origin	Regex for CORS origin. It is fully anchored. Example: 'https?://(domain1	domain2).com'
--storage.tsdb.path	Base path for metrics storage. Use with server mode only.	data/
--storage.tsdb.retention	[DEPRECATED] How long to retain samples in storage. This flag has been deprecated, use "storage.tsdb.retention.time" instead. Use with server mode only.
--storage.tsdb.retention.time	How long to retain samples in storage. When this flag is set it overrides "storage.tsdb.retention". If neither this flag nor "storage.tsdb.retention" nor "storage.tsdb.retention.size" is set, the retention time defaults to 15d. Units Supported: y, w, d, h, m, s, ms. Use with server mode only.
--storage.tsdb.retention.size	Maximum number of bytes that can be stored for blocks. A unit is required, supported units: B, KB, MB, GB, TB, PB, EB. Ex: "512MB". Based on powers-of-2, so 1KB is 1024B. Use with server mode only.
--storage.tsdb.no-lockfile	Do not create lockfile in data directory. Use with server mode only.	false
--storage.tsdb.head-chunks-write-queue-size	Size of the queue through which head chunks are written to the disk to be m-mapped, 0 disables the queue completely. Experimental. Use with server mode only.	0
--storage.agent.path	Base path for metrics storage. Use with agent mode only.	data-agent/
--storage.agent.wal-compression	Compress the agent WAL. Use with agent mode only.	true
--storage.agent.retention.min-time	Minimum age samples may be before being considered for deletion when the WAL is truncated Use with agent mode only.
--storage.agent.retention.max-time	Maximum age samples may be before being forcibly deleted when the WAL is truncated Use with agent mode only.
--storage.agent.no-lockfile	Do not create lockfile in data directory. Use with agent mode only.	false
--storage.remote.flush-deadline	How long to wait flushing sample on shutdown or config reload.	1m
--storage.remote.read-sample-limit	Maximum overall number of samples to return via the remote read interface, in a single query. 0 means no limit. This limit is ignored for streamed response types. Use with server mode only.	5e7
--storage.remote.read-concurrent-limit	Maximum number of concurrent remote read calls. 0 means no limit. Use with server mode only.	10
--storage.remote.read-max-bytes-in-frame	Maximum number of bytes in a single frame for streaming remote read response types before marshalling. Note that client might have limit on frame size as well. 1MB as recommended by protobuf by default. Use with server mode only.	1048576
--rules.alert.for-outage-tolerance	Max time to tolerate prometheus outage for restoring "for" state of alert. Use with server mode only.	1h
--rules.alert.for-grace-period	Minimum duration between alert and restored "for" state. This is maintained only for alerts with configured "for" time greater than grace period. Use with server mode only.	10m
--rules.alert.resend-delay	Minimum amount of time to wait before resending an alert to Alertmanager. Use with server mode only.	1m
--rules.max-concurrent-evals	Global concurrency limit for independent rules that can run concurrently. When set, "query.max-concurrency" may need to be adjusted accordingly. Use with server mode only.	4
--alertmanager.notification-queue-capacity	The capacity of the queue for pending Alertmanager notifications. Use with server mode only.	10000
--alertmanager.drain-notification-queue-on-shutdown	Send any outstanding Alertmanager notifications when shutting down. If false, any outstanding Alertmanager notifications will be dropped when shutting down. Use with server mode only.	true
--query.lookback-delta	The maximum lookback duration for retrieving metrics during expression evaluations and federation. Use with server mode only.	5m
--query.timeout	Maximum time a query may take before being aborted. Use with server mode only.	2m
--query.max-concurrency	Maximum number of queries executed concurrently. Use with server mode only.	20
--query.max-samples	Maximum number of samples a single query can load into memory. Note that queries will fail if they try to load more samples than this into memory, so this also limits the number of samples a query can return. Use with server mode only.	50000000
--enable-feature	Comma separated feature names to enable. Valid options: agent, auto-gomemlimit, exemplar-storage, expand-external-labels, memory-snapshot-on-shutdown, promql-per-step-stats, promql-experimental-functions, remote-write-receiver (DEPRECATED), extra-scrape-metrics, new-service-discovery-manager, auto-gomaxprocs, no-default-scrape-port, native-histograms, otlp-write-receiver, created-timestamp-zero-ingestion, concurrent-rule-eval. See https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/feature_flags/ for more details.
--log.level	Only log messages with the given severity or above. One of: [debug, info, warn, error]	info
--log.format	Output format of log messages. One of: [logfmt, json]	logfmt