---
title: Prometheus query metricset
description: This is the query metricset to query from querying API of Prometheus. The following configuration performs an instant query for up metric at a single...
url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3016/reference/beats/metricbeat/metricbeat-metricset-prometheus-query
products:
  - Beats
  - Metricbeat
applies_to:
  - Elastic Cloud Serverless: Generally available
  - Elastic Stack: Generally available
---

# Prometheus query metricset
This is the `query` metricset to query from [querying API of Prometheus](https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/querying/api/#expression-queries).

## Configuration


### Instant queries

The following configuration performs an instant query for `up` metric at a single point in time:
```yaml
- module: prometheus
  period: 10s
  hosts: ["localhost:9090"]
  metricsets: ["query"]
  queries:
  - name: 'up'
    path: '/api/v1/query'
    params:
      query: "up"
```

More complex PromQL expressions can also be used like the following one which calculates the per-second rate of HTTP requests as measured over the last 5 minutes.
```yaml
- module: prometheus
  period: 10s
  hosts: ["localhost:9090"]
  metricsets: ["query"]
  queries:
  - name: "rate_http_requests_total"
    path: "/api/v1/query"
    params:
      query: "rate(prometheus_http_requests_total[5m])"
```


### Range queries

The following example evaluates the expression `up` over a 30-second range with a query resolution of 15 seconds:
```yaml
- module: prometheus
  period: 10s
  metricsets: ["query"]
  hosts: ["node:9100"]
  queries:
  - name: "up_master"
    path: "/api/v1/query_range"
    params:
      query: "up{node='master01'}"
      start: "2019-12-20T23:30:30.000Z"
      end: "2019-12-21T23:31:00.000Z"
      step: 15s
```


## Fields

For a description of each field in the metricset, see the [exported fields](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3016/reference/beats/metricbeat/exported-fields-prometheus) section.
Here is an example document generated by this metricset:
```json
{
    "@timestamp": "2017-10-12T08:05:34.853Z",
    "event": {
        "dataset": "prometheus.query",
        "duration": 115000,
        "module": "prometheus"
    },
    "metricset": {
        "name": "query",
        "period": 10000
    },
    "prometheus": {
        "labels": {
            "__name__": "go_threads",
            "instance": "localhost:9090",
            "job": "prometheus"
        },
        "query": {
            "go_threads": 18
        }
    },
    "service": {
        "address": "localhost:32769",
        "type": "prometheus"
    }
}
```