From 6fec996722600b0b4e6142b4c6931071edf57f73 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: George Krajcsovits Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:33:06 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] docs(api): clarify metadata vs remote protocols (#17481) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Signed-off-by: György Krajcsovits --- docs/querying/api.md | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/docs/querying/api.md b/docs/querying/api.md index 7324669699..78574ec103 100644 --- a/docs/querying/api.md +++ b/docs/querying/api.md @@ -1029,6 +1029,7 @@ curl http://localhost:9090/api/v1/alerts ## Querying target metadata The following endpoint returns metadata about metrics currently scraped from targets. +The endpoint has the limitation that only metadata scraped from targets directly is returned, metadata sent over Remote-Write or OTLP to Prometheus is not included in this endpoint and will not show up on the UI in "Explore Metrics". This is **experimental** and might change in the future. ```