[[prometheus]]
= Prometheus (`prometheus`)

The `prometheus` endpoint provides Spring Boot application's metrics in the format required for scraping by a Prometheus server.



[[prometheus-retrieving]]
== Retrieving the Metrics

To retrieve the metrics, make a `GET` request to `/actuator/prometheus`, as shown in the following curl-based example:

include::{snippets}/prometheus/curl-request.adoc[]

The resulting response is similar to the following:

include::{snippets}/prometheus/http-response.adoc[]
