| <codeclass="text-nowrap">--query.timeout</code> | Maximum time a query may take before being aborted. Use with server mode only. | `2m` |
| <codeclass="text-nowrap">--query.max-concurrency</code> | Maximum number of queries executed concurrently. Use with server mode only. | `20` |
| <codeclass="text-nowrap">--query.max-samples</code> | Maximum number of samples a single query can load into memory. Note that queries will fail if they try to load more samples than this into memory, so this also limits the number of samples a query can return. Use with server mode only. | `50000000` |
| <codeclass="text-nowrap">--enable-feature</code><codeclass="text-nowrap">...<codeclass="text-nowrap"> | Comma separated feature names to enable. Valid options: auto-gomemlimit, exemplar-storage, expand-external-labels, memory-snapshot-on-shutdown, promql-per-step-stats, promql-experimental-functions, extra-scrape-metrics, auto-gomaxprocs, no-default-scrape-port, native-histograms, otlp-write-receiver, created-timestamp-zero-ingestion, concurrent-rule-eval. See https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/feature_flags/ for more details. | |
| <codeclass="text-nowrap">--enable-feature</code><codeclass="text-nowrap">...<codeclass="text-nowrap"> | Comma separated feature names to enable. Valid options: auto-gomemlimit, exemplar-storage, expand-external-labels, memory-snapshot-on-shutdown, promql-per-step-stats, promql-experimental-functions, extra-scrape-metrics, auto-gomaxprocs, no-default-scrape-port, native-histograms, otlp-write-receiver, created-timestamp-zero-ingestion, concurrent-rule-eval, delayed-compaction, old-ui. See https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/feature_flags/ for more details. | |
| <codeclass="text-nowrap">--agent</code> | Run Prometheus in 'Agent mode'. | |
| <codeclass="text-nowrap">--log.level</code> | Only log messages with the given severity or above. One of: [debug, info, warn, error] | `info` |
| <codeclass="text-nowrap">--log.format</code> | Output format of log messages. One of: [logfmt, json] | `logfmt` |