curl -s
curl -s <host>:<port>/metrics
Risk: Safe
What it does
Reads a target's numbers as plain text, the same page Prometheus scrapes.
When to use it
To check that a target really shows the metric you expect.
Example
$ curl -s localhost:9100/metrics | grep 'node_load1 'Node exporter's 1-minute load, with its help and type lines.
$ curl -s localhost:9090/metrics | grep '^# TYPE' | headThe first few metric types Prometheus shows about itself.
Learn it in: Scraping and targets · Official docs