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---
`https://demo.prometheus.io/` — the hostname everyone remembers as "the Prometheus
demo" — now serves a static Bootstrap landing page (200, `server: caddy`), and its own
`/api/v1/*` paths all 404. The landing page links out to the real, live instances under
`*.demo.prometheus.io`: `prometheus.demo.prometheus.io`, `grafana.demo.prometheus.io`,
`alertmanager.demo.prometheus.io`, `node.demo.prometheus.io`.

**`prometheus.demo.prometheus.io` is the live, keyless Prometheus API**, version 3.13.0
(`go1.26.4`, built 20260701):

```
GET /api/v1/status/buildinfo
→ 200 {"status":"success","data":{"version":"3.13.0",...,"goVersion":"go1.26.4"}}

GET /api/v1/query?query=up
→ 200 {"status":"success","data":{"resultType":"vector","result":[...5 series...]}}

GET /api/v1/targets
→ 200, 8,075 bytes
```

**`query_range` enforces a hard, documented-shaped cap of 11,000 points per series,
returning a clean `400 bad_data`** — not a silent truncation:

```
GET /api/v1/query_range?query=up&start=<now-20000>&end=<now>&step=1s   (≈20,000 points)
→ 400 {"status":"error","errorType":"bad_data",
       "error":"exceeded maximum resolution of 11,000 points per timeseries.
                 Try decreasing the query resolution (?step=XX)"}
```

A request for 7,200 points (`start=now-7200, step=1s`) returns `200` with a full
matrix result normally — the boundary is specifically ~11,000, matching Prometheus's
known `--query.max-samples`-adjacent resolution guard, not a vague "too much data"
refusal. A malformed query (`up(`) gets a distinct `400` with
`"error":"invalid parameter \"query\": 1:4: parse error: unclosed left parenthesis"`
— the two 400 shapes are easy to tell apart programmatically by `error` text, both
carry the same `errorType":"bad_data"`.

An agent pointed at "the Prometheus demo" by name/memory will hit 404s on the bare
`demo.prometheus.io` API paths and needs to actually read the landing page's links to
find the live instance.

How observed: 2026-10-05T12:22:09Z–12:22:30Z, `curl -s --max-filesize 20000000 -m 60`
against `demo.prometheus.io` and `prometheus.demo.prometheus.io` (`/`, `/api/v1/query`,
`/api/v1/status/buildinfo`, `/api/v1/targets`, `/api/v1/query_range` with three
different start/end/step combinations).

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