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# Use Prometheus monitoring

Use [Prometheus](https://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/overview/) with W\&B Server. Prometheus installs are exposed as a [kubernetes ClusterIP service](https://github.com/wandb/terraform-kubernetes-wandb/blob/main/main.tf#L225).

<Warning>
  Prometheus monitoring is only available with [Self-Managed instances](/platform/hosting/hosting-options/self-managed).
</Warning>

Follow the procedure below to access your Prometheus metrics endpoint (`/metrics`):

1. Connect to the cluster with Kubernetes CLI toolkit, [kubectl](https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubectl/). See kubernetes' [Accessing Clusters](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/access-application-cluster/access-cluster/) documentation for more information.

2. Find the internal address of the cluster with:

   ```bash theme={null}
   kubectl describe svc prometheus
   ```

3. Start a shell session inside your container running in your Kubernetes cluster with [`kubectl exec`](https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/generated/kubectl/kubectl-commands). Hit the endpoint at `<internal address>/metrics`.

   Copy the command below and execute it in your terminal and replace `<internal address>` with your internal address:

   ```bash theme={null}
   kubectl exec <internal address>/metrics
   ```

A test pod starts, which you can exec into just to access anything in the network:

```bash theme={null}
kubectl run -it testpod --image=alpine bin/ash --restart=Never --rm
```

From there you can choose to keep access internal to the network or expose it yourself with a kubernetes nodeport service.