---
title: Prometheus module
description: This module periodically scrapes metrics from Prometheus exporters. The Prometheus module comes with a predefined dashboard for Prometheus specific stats...
url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3016/reference/beats/metricbeat/metricbeat-module-prometheus
products:
  - Beats
  - Metricbeat
applies_to:
  - Elastic Cloud Serverless: Generally available
  - Elastic Stack: Generally available
---

# Prometheus module
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  Refer to the [Elastic Integrations documentation](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3016/reference/prometheus).
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</admonition>


This module periodically scrapes metrics from [Prometheus exporters](https://prometheus.io/docs/instrumenting/exporters/).

## Dashboard

The Prometheus module comes with a predefined dashboard for Prometheus specific stats. For example:
![metricbeat prometheus overview](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3016/reference/beats/metricbeat/images/metricbeat-prometheus-overview.png)

## Example configuration

The Prometheus module supports the standard configuration options that are described in [Modules](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3016/reference/beats/metricbeat/configuration-metricbeat). Here is an example configuration:
```yaml
metricbeat.modules:
# Metrics collected from a Prometheus endpoint
- module: prometheus
  period: 10s
  metricsets: ["collector"]
  hosts: ["localhost:9090"]
  metrics_path: /metrics
  #metrics_filters:
  #  include: []
  #  exclude: []
  #username: "user"
  #password: "secret"

  # Count number of metrics present in Elasticsearch document (default: false)
  #metrics_count: false

  # This can be used for service account based authorization:
  #bearer_token_file: /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/token
  #ssl.certificate_authorities:
  #  - /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/service-ca.crt


# Metrics sent by a Prometheus server using remote_write option
#- module: prometheus
#  metricsets: ["remote_write"]
#  host: "localhost"
#  port: "9201"

  # Count number of metrics present in Elasticsearch document (default: false)
  #metrics_count: false

  # Secure settings for the server using TLS/SSL:
  #ssl.certificate: "/etc/pki/server/cert.pem"
  #ssl.key: "/etc/pki/server/cert.key"

# Metrics that will be collected using a PromQL
#- module: prometheus
#  metricsets: ["query"]
#  hosts: ["localhost:9090"]
#  period: 10s
#  queries:
#  - name: "instant_vector"
#    path: "/api/v1/query"
#    params:
#      query: "sum(rate(prometheus_http_requests_total[1m]))"
#  - name: "range_vector"
#    path: "/api/v1/query_range"
#    params:
#      query: "up"
#      start: "2019-12-20T00:00:00.000Z"
#      end:  "2019-12-21T00:00:00.000Z"
#      step: 1h
#  - name: "scalar"
#    path: "/api/v1/query"
#    params:
#      query: "100"
#  - name: "string"
#    path: "/api/v1/query"
#    params:
#      query: "some_value"
```

This module supports TLS connections when using `ssl` config field, as described in [SSL](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3016/reference/beats/metricbeat/configuration-ssl). It also supports the options described in [Standard HTTP config options](/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3016/reference/beats/metricbeat/configuration-metricbeat#module-http-config-options).

## Metricsets

The following metricsets are available:
- [collector](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3016/reference/beats/metricbeat/metricbeat-metricset-prometheus-collector)
- [query](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3016/reference/beats/metricbeat/metricbeat-metricset-prometheus-query)
- [remote_write](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3016/reference/beats/metricbeat/metricbeat-metricset-prometheus-remote_write)