$ check_prometheus -h NAME: check_prometheus - Checks different prometheus stats as well the data itself Copyright (c) 2017 Philip Griesbacher https://github.com/Griesbacher/check_prometheus USAGE: check_prometheus [global options] command [command options] [arguments...] VERSION: 0.0.1 COMMANDS: mode, m check mode help, h Shows a list of commands or help for one command GLOBAL OPTIONS: -t value Seconds till check returns unknown, 0 to disable (default: 10) -f value If the checked data is older then this in seconds, unknown will be returned. Set to 0 to disable. (default: 300) --help, -h show help --version, -v print the version 

$ check_prometheus mode -h NAME: check_prometheus mode - check mode USAGE: check_prometheus mode command [command options] [arguments...] COMMANDS: ping, p Returns the build informations query, q Checks collected data targets_health Returns the health of the targets OPTIONS: --help, -h show help 

$ check_prometheus mode query -h NAME: check_prometheus mode query - Checks collected data USAGE: check_prometheus mode query [command options] [arguments...] DESCRIPTION: Your Promqlquery has to return a vector / scalar / matrix result. The warning and critical values are applied to every value. Examples: Vector: check_prometheus mode query -q 'up' --> OK - Query: 'up'|'up{instance="192.168.99.101:9245", job="iapetos"}'=1;;;; 'up{instance="0.0.0.0:9091", job="prometheus"}'=1;;;; Scalar: check_prometheus mode query -q 'scalar(up{job="prometheus"})' --> OK - OK - Query: 'scalar(up{job="prometheus"})' returned: '1'|'scalar'=1;;;; Matrix: check_prometheus mode query -q 'http_requests_total{job="prometheus"}[5m]' --> OK - Query: 'http_requests_total{job="prometheus"}[5m]' Search and Replace: check_prometheus m query -q 'up' --search '.*job=\"(.*?)\".*' --replace '$1' --> OK - Query: 'up'|'prometheus'=1;;;; 'iapetos'=0;;;; check_prometheus m q -q '{handler="prometheus",quantile="0.99",job="prometheus",__name__=~"http_.*bytes"}' --search '.*__name__=\"(.*?)\".*' --replace '$1' -a 'http_in_out' --> OK - Alias: 'http_in_out'|'http_request_size_bytes'=296;;;; 'http_response_size_bytes'=5554;;;; OPTIONS: --address value Prometheus address: Protocol + IP + Port. (default: "http://localhost:9100") -q value Query to be executed -a value Alias, will replace the query within the output, if set -w value Warning value. Use nagios-plugin syntax here. -c value Critical value. Use nagios-plugin syntax here. --search value If this variable is set, the given Golang regex will be used to search and replace the result with the 'replace' flag content. This will be appied on the perflabels. --replace value See search flag. If the 'search' flag is empty this flag will be ignored.