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+# prometheus-http-client
+
+Makes requests to the prometheus query API. With `plot` feature, also provides
+a way to plot resposnes from prometheus.
+
+*Note*: There are many prometheus query clients for rust -- I only made another because
+I thought I only needed one or two routes so I would just use `reqwest` directly.
+
+Over time it has grown and now I feel a bit silly.
+
+This should probably be replaced
+with [`prometheus-http-query`](https://docs.rs/prometheus-http-query/latest/prometheus_http_query/)
+or one of the other competitors, except for the plotting functionality.