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+"""
+Prometheus API helper functions
+(c) 2016 by Steven Van Rossem <steven.vanrossem@intec.ugent.be>
+"""
+
+import urllib2
+import ast
+
+prometheus_ip = '0.0.0.0'
+prometheus_port = '9090'
+prometheus_REST_api = 'http://{0}:{1}'.format(prometheus_ip, prometheus_port)
+
+
+def query_Prometheus(query):
+    url = prometheus_REST_api + '/' + 'api/v1/query?query=' + query
+    # logging.info('query:{0}'.format(url))
+    req = urllib2.Request(url)
+    ret = urllib2.urlopen(req).read()
+    ret = ast.literal_eval(ret)
+    if ret['status'] == 'success':
+        # logging.info('return:{0}'.format(ret))
+        try:
+            ret = ret['data']['result'][0]['value']
+        except:
+            ret = None
+    else:
+        ret = None
+    return ret
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