1 files changed, 6 insertions, 28 deletions
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus/metric.go b/vendor/github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus/metric.go
index d4063d9..76035bc 100644
--- a/vendor/github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus/metric.go
+++ b/vendor/github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus/metric.go
@@ -79,20 +79,12 @@ type Opts struct {
 	// with the same fully-qualified name must have the same label names in
 	// their ConstLabels.
 	//
-	// Note that in most cases, labels have a value that varies during the
-	// lifetime of a process. Those labels are usually managed with a metric
-	// vector collector (like CounterVec, GaugeVec, UntypedVec). ConstLabels
-	// serve only special purposes. One is for the special case where the
-	// value of a label does not change during the lifetime of a process,
-	// e.g. if the revision of the running binary is put into a
-	// label. Another, more advanced purpose is if more than one Collector
-	// needs to collect Metrics with the same fully-qualified name. In that
-	// case, those Metrics must differ in the values of their
-	// ConstLabels. See the Collector examples.
-	//
-	// If the value of a label never changes (not even between binaries),
-	// that label most likely should not be a label at all (but part of the
-	// metric name).
+	// ConstLabels are only used rarely. In particular, do not use them to
+	// attach the same labels to all your metrics. Those use cases are
+	// better covered by target labels set by the scraping Prometheus
+	// server, or by one specific metric (e.g. a build_info or a
+	// machine_role metric). See also
+	// https://prometheus.io/docs/instrumenting/writing_exporters/#target-labels,-not-static-scraped-labels
 	ConstLabels Labels
 }
 
@@ -135,20 +127,6 @@ func (s LabelPairSorter) Less(i, j int) bool {
 	return s[i].GetName() < s[j].GetName()
 }
 
-type hashSorter []uint64
-
-func (s hashSorter) Len() int {
-	return len(s)
-}
-
-func (s hashSorter) Swap(i, j int) {
-	s[i], s[j] = s[j], s[i]
-}
-
-func (s hashSorter) Less(i, j int) bool {
-	return s[i] < s[j]
-}
-
 type invalidMetric struct {
 	desc *Desc
 	err  error