# Complicated rest api of prometheus not working

**URL:** <https://discuss.prometheus.io/t/complicated-rest-api-of-prometheus-not-working/270>\
**Category:** PromQL\
**Created:** [May 27, 2021, 3:36am UTC](https://discuss.prometheus.io/t/complicated-rest-api-of-prometheus-not-working/270 "2021-05-27T03:36:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![venerari](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/discuss.prometheus.io/venerari/32/147_2.png) [@venerari](https://discuss.prometheus.io/u/venerari)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2021, 3:36am UTC](https://discuss.prometheus.io/t/complicated-rest-api-of-prometheus-not-working/270/1 "2021-05-27T03:36:16Z")

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How come this doesn’t work,

curl -ks -H ‘Authorization: Bearer sha256~\_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx’ “[https:][//prometheus-k8s-openshift-monitoring.apps.node1.test.com/api/v1/query?query=sum(container\_memory\_working\_set\_bytes{pod=‘application-one-11-pgsl5’,namespace=‘me-sandbox’,container=’’,})](https://prometheus-k8s-openshift-monitoring.apps.node1.test.com/api/v1/query?query=sum(container_memory_working_set_bytes%7Bpod='application-one-11-pgsl5',namespace='me-sandbox',container='',%7D))”

With errors,

{“status”:“error”,“errorType”:“bad\_data”,“error”:“invalid parameter ‘query’: 1:42: parse error: unexpected “=” in aggregation”}{“status”:“error”,“errorType”:“bad\_data”,“error”:“invalid parameter ‘query’: 1:48: parse error: unexpected “=” in aggregation”}{“status”:“error”,“errorType”:“bad\_data”,“error”:“invalid parameter ‘query’: 1:48: parse error: unexpected “=” in aggregation”}{“status”:“success”,“data”:{“resultType”:“vector”,“result”:[{“metme”:{},“value”:[1622082452.048,“1778649063424”]}]}}

But this works,

curl -ks -H ‘Authorization: Bearer sha256~\_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx’ ‘[https:][//prometheus-k8s-openshift-monitoring.apps.node1.test.com/api/v1/query?query=rate(http\_requests\_total[5m])[30m:1m]](https://prometheus-k8s-openshift-monitoring.apps.node1.test.com/api/v1/query?query=rate(http_requests_total%5B5m%5D)%5B30m:1m%5D)’

Output is long,

{“status”:“success”,“data”:{“resultType”:“matrix”,“result”:[{“metric”:{“code”:“200”,“container”:“oauth-proxy”,“endpoint”:“web”,“handler”:“label\_values”,“instance”:“172.29.11.248:9091”,“job”:“thanos-querier”,“method”:“get”,“namespace”:“openshift-monitoring”,“pod”:“thanos-querier-5f6698bdb6-jznzs”,“service”:“thanos-querier”},“values”:[[1622080920,“0”],[1622080980,“0”],[1622081040,“0”],[1622081100,“0”],[1622081160,“0”],[1622081220,“0”],[1622081280,“0”],[1622081340,“0”],[1622081400,“0”],[1622081460,“0”],[1622081520,“0.003703703703703704”],[1622081580,“0.003703703703703704”],[1622081640,“0.003703703703703704”],[1622081700,"0.

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Is there more documentation on the rest api query?  
I want this to work,  
sum(container\_memory\_working\_set\_bytes{pod=‘application-one-11-pgsl5’,namespace=‘me-sandbox’,container=’’,})

Please help, thanks!

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**Author:** ![venerari](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/discuss.prometheus.io/venerari/32/147_2.png) [@venerari](https://discuss.prometheus.io/u/venerari)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2021, 5:45pm UTC](https://discuss.prometheus.io/t/complicated-rest-api-of-prometheus-not-working/270/2 "2021-05-27T17:45:45Z")

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you can inspect the chrome on the prometheus prom ql, u can grab the actual prom ql rest api, you don’t need to know how to create yourself the prom ql rest api, the browser will give it to you.