October 9, 2024 - If you’re learning PromQL, Grafana’s builder mode for the Prometheus query editor is very useful to see how expressions build up, and makes it easy to see what operations are available. PromLens, a stand-alone tool and another query builder for PromQL, takes this a step further and helps you build, understand, and optimize your queries. The Prometheus documentation is the ultimate reference, but this helpful PromQL cheat sheet ...

February 5, 2020 - As supplements to this post, check out this excellent recorded talk by Ian Billett from PromCon EU 2019: PromQL for Mere Mortals. If you’re interested in a PromQL cheat sheet check out Timber’s PromQL for Humans or PromLabs’ PromQL Cheat Sheet.

# full example: https://gist.github.com/ruanbekker/72216bea59fc56af189f5a7b2e3a8002 scrape_configs: - job_name: 'multipass-nodes' static_configs: - targets: ['ip-192-168-64-29.multipass:9100'] labels: env: test - targets: ['ip-192-168-64-30.multipass:9100'] labels: env: test # https://grafana.com/blog/2022/03/21/how-relabeling-in-prometheus-works/#internal-labels relabel_configs: - source_labels: [__address__] separator: ':' regex: '(.*):(.*)' replacement: '${1}' target_label: instance

March 23, 2026 - PromQL cheat sheet with copy-paste query examples for rates, aggregations, histograms, label matching, recording rules, and alerting expressions.

October 29, 2025 - Master PromQL with this comprehensive Prometheus Query Cheat Sheet. Learn syntax, operators, label selectors, vector matching, aggregation functions, Kubernetes monitoring, Grafana queries, and production-ready examples.

October 12, 2021 - For example, the figure below illustrates a PromQL query that selects only those time series with the http_requests_total metric name that have the job label set to Prometheus and the group label set to canary.

Key functions — rate, irate, increase, histogram_quantile, absent, absent_over_time, delta, predict_linear, age Aggregations — sum, count, topk, by/without, quantile_over_time, bool, offset Label manipulation — label_replace, label_join ...

Prometheus project documentation for Query examples

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August 10, 2024 - Note: Using $__interval in your Grafana queries is often sufficient for many types of queries, particularly when you want your data to automatically adjust to the dashboard's time range and resolution. ... These are the queries and functions I use often and I thought it could be of a great help for beginners. Credits to https://promlabs.com/promql-cheat-sheet...

September 15, 2023 - It doesn’t cover common table expressions from MetricsQL (aka CTE or WITH templates), which allows simplifying complex PromQL queries with many repeated label filters templated in Grafana. It doesn’t cover other useful features from MetricsQL supported by VictoriaMetrics. I’d recommend continuing learning PromQL with this cheat sheet.

Each time series in Grafana optionally has labels. labels are set a of key/value pairs for identifying dimensions. Example labels could are {location=us} or {country=us,state=ma,city=boston}. Within a set of time series, the combination of its name and labels identifies each series.

December 16, 2024 - With these basic PromQL queries, you have the tools to monitor and analyze key metrics using Prometheus and Grafana.

If you're seeing this Grafana has failed to load its application files · 1. This could be caused by your reverse proxy settings. 2. If you host grafana under subpath make sure your grafana.ini root_url setting includes subpath. If not using a reverse proxy make sure to set serve_from_sub_path ...

February 4, 2025 - PromQL is the dedicated query language for the metrics and monitoring Stack known as Prometheus. PromQL is well know for having a steep learning curve. Because of this we've created a helpful cheat sheet as a reference to help you with understanding the most common PromQL queries.

Guide for using the Prometheus data source's query editor

June 3, 2025 - This online editor allows you to get started with PromQL without downloading Prometheus. As well as tabular and graph views, there is also an “explain” view. This gives the straight dope on what each function in your query is doing, helping you understand the language in the process. ... This tutorial by Coralogix explains how to integrate your Grafana instance with Coralogix, or you can use our hosted Grafana instance that comes automatically connected to your Coralogix data.

In this course, you will learn how to write efficient PromQL queries to retrieve and analyze metrics in Grafana.

PromQL · A query is built up from: ● · Selectors: http_requests_total{status="200"}. ● · Functions: abs, rate. ● · Aggregations: sum by (status). ● · Operators: >, +. PromQL Example · rate(http_requests_total[5m]) > 0 · Abstract Syntax Tree · rate(http_requests_total[5m]) > 0 ·

February 26, 2025 - This guide introduces PromQL basics, covering data types, query structures, and practical examples to help you master Prometheus queries and analyze metrics