Verify metrics

Verify Prometheus metrics are written to an endpoint

While installing and configuring Prometheus in your local environment is out of scope for this journey, a good first step in this journey is to verify that your system is writing metrics to the Prometheus endpoint.

To verify Prometheus metrics are written to an endpoint:

Log into the machine on which Prometheus is installed.
If required, switch to a user that has administrative privileges.
To check the Prometheus service status, run one of the following commands:
For Linux:
```
systemctl status prometheus.service
```
For Windows:
```
sc query prometheus
```
You should see something similar to the following:
To ensure that Prometheus is capturing the metrics, open a browser tab and navigate to the metrics endpoint URL.
For example, navigate to http://localhost:9090/metrics
You should see something similar to the following: