Exploring promtool

Prometheus ships with a very useful supporting command-line tool called promtool. This small Golang binary can be used to quickly perform several troubleshooting actions and is packed with helpful subcommands.

The features available can be divided into four categories, which we'll be covering next.

Checks

The subcommands that belong to this category provide the user with the ability to check and validate several configuration aspects of the Prometheus server and metric standards compliance. The following sections depict their usage.

check config

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