# Reading metrics

You can read metrics written to Yandex Managed Service for Prometheus® in one of the following ways:

* Add requests to Prometheus metrics in [Monitoring](monitoring.md).
* [Connect](grafana.md) Yandex Managed Service for Prometheus® to a current Grafana instance via the [Prometheus data source](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/datasources/prometheus/) and use PromQL as a query language.
* Use the [HTTP API](https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/querying/api/#expression-queries) to run PromQL queries.
* Set up Prometheus to [read](remote-read.md) metrics using [Remote Read](https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/configuration/configuration/#remote_read).

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