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Can you share a guide / tutorial on how to accomplish what OP wants (or just get started with Prometheus)? I was in the same boat as OP and settled for netdata, and eventually gave up on monitoring altogether because it was either overwhelming me with data, too cumbersome to set up or had features behind paid plans.
Anytime you're asking this, go for the projects Quick Start / Getting Started doc. In this case here. If you're on a Debian based system Prometheus is already packaged in the repository so you don't have to download the latest. You likely won't win anything but the pain for having to set up the bare binary as a service with systemd. I followed that doc to setup mine but installed it from apt.
On a second thought, if you're getting it from the repo and it already has a systemd unit defined, it might be more difficult to follow the Getting Started doc. You know what, follow it as-is. Once you have something running and monitoring ad-hoc, it'll be easy to install from apt and put your config in it.