API

Promtail features an embedded web server exposing a web console at / and the following API endpoints:

This endpoint returns 200 when Promtail is up and running, and there's at least one working target.

This endpoint returns Promtail metrics for Prometheus. See "Operations > Observability > Metrics" to have a list of exported metrics.

Promtail web server config

The web server exposed by Promtail can be configured in the promtail .yaml config file:

server:
  http_listen_host: 127.0.0.1
  http_listen_port: 9080