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There is https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/management_api/#quit in the Prometheus doc itself.

https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/getting_started/ has a section "Shutting down your instance gracefully" at the very end.

Both are in prometheus/prometheus itself and not in this repo (prometheus/docs).

node_exporter is in its own repo, with some documentation there.

AFAIK you can gracefully shutdown all binaries in the Prometheus project by sending a SIGTERM/SIGINT, which can be done by pressing Ctrl-C in a terminal. I would say that is common knowledge how to start and stop programs with your preferred OS, and not specific to Prometheus.

Usually, you will run processes like the Prometheus server or the node_exporter from some kind of service manager, like systemd on a Linux server, SysV init on older Linux or UNIX systems, Kubernetes in the cloud, etc. But each of these have their own usage, and we cannot really document all of them on the Prometheus doc page, and Prometheus just behaves like any other program under these service managers. Nothing specific here.

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