docs-v2/content/influxdb/v2.1/write-data/developer-tools/scrape-prometheus-metrics.md

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Scrape Prometheus metrics	Scape Prometheus metrics into InfluxDB	205	Use Telegraf, InfluxDB scrapers, or the `prometheus.scrape` Flux function to scrape Prometheus-formatted metrics from an HTTP-accessible endpoint and store them in InfluxDB.	influxdb_2_1 name parent Scrape Prometheus metrics Developer tools	/{{< latest "telegraf" >}}/plugins/#input-prometheus, Telegraf Prometheus input plugin /{{< latest "flux" >}}/prometheus/scrape-prometheus/, Scrape Prometheus metrics with Flux /{{< latest "flux" >}}/stdlib/experimental/prometheus/scrape/ /{{< latest "flux" >}}/prometheus/metric-types/ /influxdb/v2.1/reference/prometheus-metrics/ /influxdb/v2.1/write-data/no-code/scrape-data/	prometheus scraper

Use [Telegraf](/{{< latest "telegraf" >}}/){{% oss-only %}}, InfluxDB scrapers,{{% /oss-only %}} or the [prometheus.scrape Flux function](/{{< latest "flux" >}}/stdlib/experimental/prometheus/scrape/) to scrape Prometheus-formatted metrics from an HTTP-accessible endpoint and store them in InfluxDB.

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• Use Telegraf
• Use an InfluxDB scraper
• Use prometheus.scrape()

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• Use Telegraf
• Use prometheus.scrape()

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Use Telegraf

To use Telegraf to scrape Prometheus-formatted metrics from an HTTP-accessible endpoint and write them to InfluxDB{{% cloud-only %}} Cloud{{% /cloud-only %}}, follow these steps:

1. Add the [Prometheus input plugin](/{{< latest "telegraf" >}}/plugins/#input-prometheus) to your Telegraf configuration file.
   1. Set the urls to scrape metrics from.
   2. Set the metric_version configuration option to specify which metric parsing version to use (version 2 is recommended).
2. Add the [InfluxDB v2 output plugin](/{{< latest "telegraf" >}}/plugins/#output-influxdb_v2) to your Telegraf configuration file and configure it to to write to InfluxDB{{% cloud-only %}} Cloud{{% /cloud-only %}}.

Example telegraf.conf

# ...

## Collect Prometheus formatted metrics
[[inputs.prometheus]]
  urls = ["http://example.com/metrics"]
  metric_version = 2

## Write Prometheus formatted metrics to InfluxDB
[[outputs.influxdb_v2]]
  urls = ["http://localhost:8086"]
  token = "$INFLUX_TOKEN"
  organization = "example-org"
  bucket = "example-bucket"

# ...

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Use an InfluxDB scraper

InfluxDB scrapers automatically scrape Prometheus-formatted metrics from an HTTP-accessible endpoint at a regular interval.

• Create a scraper with the InfluxDB API
• Create a scraper with the InfluxDB UI

Create a scraper with the InfluxDB API

Use the InfluxDB API /api/v2/scrapers endpoint to manage scrapers and member privileges for scrapers.

To create a scraper, send an HTTP POST request to the /api/v2/scrapers endpoint.

{{< api-endpoint method="POST" endpoint="http://localhost:8086/api/v2/scrapers" >}}

Include the following in your request:

Requirement	Include by
API token with write: orgs/YOUR_ORG_ID/scrapers permission	Use the Authorization header and the Bearer or Token scheme.
Organization	Pass as orgID in the request body.
Scraper name	Pass as name in the request body.
Format of scraped data	Pass as type in the request body. Prometheus data format (prometheus) is the only supported type.
URL endpoint to scrape	Pass as url in the request body.

Optionally, to force the scraper to skip TLS verification and ignore self-signed certificates at the url, pass "allowInsecure": true in the request body.

Example

curl -v --request POST http://localhost:8086/api/v2/scrapers \
  --header "Authorization: Token ${INFLUX_TOKEN}" \
  --header 'Content-type: application/json' \
  --data-binary @- << JSON
    {
      "name": "Scraper name",
      "type": "prometheus",
      "url": "http://localhost:9090/metrics",
      "orgID": "${INFLUX_ORG}",
      "bucketID": "c55193a037c3b0ca",
      "allowInsecure": true
    }
JSON

Create a scraper with the InfluxDB UI

To use the InfluxDB UI to manage scrapers, see Scrape data using InfluxDB scrapers.

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Use prometheus.scrape()

To use the [prometheus.scrape() Flux function](/{{< latest "flux" >}}/stdlib/experimental/prometheus/scrape/) to scrape Prometheus-formatted metrics from an HTTP-accessible endpoint and write them to InfluxDB{{% cloud-only %}} Cloud{{% /cloud-only %}}, do the following in your Flux script:

1. Import the [experimental/prometheus package](/{{< latest "flux" >}}/stdlib/experimental/prometheus/).
2. Use prometheus.scrape() and provide the URL to scrape metrics from.
3. Use [to()](/{{< latest "flux" >}}/stdlib/influxdata/influxdb/to/) and specify the InfluxDB{{% cloud-only %}} Cloud{{% /cloud-only %}} bucket to write the scraped metrics to.

Example Flux script

import "experimental/prometheus"

prometheus.scrape(url: "http://example.com/metrics")
    |> to(bucket: "example-bucket")

4. (Optional) To scrape Prometheus metrics at regular intervals using Flux, add your Flux scraping script as an [InfluxDB task](/{{< latest "influxdb" >}}/process-data/).

For information about scraping Prometheus-formatted metrics with prometheus.scrape(), see [Scrape Prometheus metrics with Flux](/{{< latest "flux" >}}/prometheus/scrape-prometheus/).