How do I check the prometheus version?

Question

I'm running two servers with Ubuntu and one of them has grafana and prometheus running on it. I'm trying to rebuild the same environment on the other server however I fail to find the version of it. Searching with find / prometheus* also didn't have any result.

What should I do?

Many thanks @muru. with your command I find it at /opt/prometheus/, and have version info (0.20.0) inside. — Xuzheng Lin, Oct 20 '17 at 02:22

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 27 '22 at 11:36

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If you're trying to find the version from within prometheus (or grafana or similar) you can query the metric: prometheus_build_info:

answered Oct 27 '22 at 11:36

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Xuzheng Lin · Answer 2 · 2017-10-20T04:22:17.570

As suggested, with the command find / -iname '*prometheus*', the result included among other things:

/opt/prometheus/prometheus-0.20.0.linux-amd64
/opt/prometheus/prometheus-0.20.0.linux-amd64/prometheus.yml
/opt/prometheus/prometheus-0.20.0.linux-amd64/prometheus

Which shows the version is 0.20.0. Thanks a lot for the help.

Also, you can use ./prometheus -version in the folder to find the detail of the version:

prometheus, version 0.20.0 (branch: master, revision: aeab25c)
  build user:       root@77050118f904
  build date:       20160616-08:38:14
  go version:       go1.6.2

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 17 '20 at 01:10

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Perhaps it has changed in the last few years but I had to use two hyphens before version:

./prometheus --version

not

./prometheus -version

answered Nov 17 '20 at 01:10

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I'm using version 2.26.0 and the prometheus executable is located at /bin/prometheus – Catfish Apr 15 '21 at 16:23
using 2.11.1, had to use --version as well. – Zayne S Halsall Mar 24 '22 at 12:52

How do I check the prometheus version?

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