<ul data-eligibleForWebStory="true">Promtool is a tool that helps validate custom recording and alerting rules in Prometheus on macOS.It is a command-line utility that checks rule file validity, verifies PromQL queries, tests alert rules, and debugs time series data.You can install promtool on macOS using Homebrew by executing 'brew install prometheus'.Alternatively, you can download the binary from the Prometheus website by extracting the macOS tarball.To validate rule files, use the 'promtool check rules filename.yaml' command.