Prometheus quit via url

[mg03]

What did you do?

curl -X POST localhost:9090/-/quit

What did you expect to see?

Prometheus to stop

What did you see instead? Under which circumstances?

Prometheus keeps running and I get 404 page not found for /-/quit

Environment

ubuntu 14.04

• System information:

  insert output of uname -srm here

Linux 4.4.0-64-generic x86_64

• Prometheus version:

  insert output of prometheus -version here

prometheus -version
prometheus, version 1.5.2 (branch: master, revision: bd1182d)
build user: root@a8af9200f95d
build date: 20170210-14:41:22
go version: go1.7.5

• Alertmanager version:

  insert output of alertmanager -version here (if relevant to the issue)

• Prometheus configuration file:

insert configuration here

• Alertmanager configuration file:

insert configuration here (if relevant to the issue)

• Logs:

curl -X POST localhost:9090/-/quit
404 page not found

[beorn7]

Could you elaborate your use case? Why do you need this?

[juliusv]

Since allowing remote shutdown is a bit risky, you need to start Prometheus with the -web.enable-remote-shutdown flag to enable this. It works for me with that flag, so closing.

[lock]

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