// Copyright 2016 The Prometheus Authors // Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); // you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. // You may obtain a copy of the License at // // http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 // // Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software // distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, // WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. // See the License for the specific language governing permissions and // limitations under the License. package prometheus import ( "errors" "fmt" "sort" "strings" "github.com/golang/protobuf/proto" "github.com/prometheus/common/model" dto "github.com/prometheus/client_model/go" ) // reservedLabelPrefix is a prefix which is not legal in user-supplied // label names. const reservedLabelPrefix = "__" // Labels represents a collection of label name -> value mappings. This type is // commonly used with the With(Labels) and GetMetricWith(Labels) methods of // metric vector Collectors, e.g.: // myVec.With(Labels{"code": "404", "method": "GET"}).Add(42) // // The other use-case is the specification of constant label pairs in Opts or to // create a Desc. type Labels map[string]string // Desc is the descriptor used by every Prometheus Metric. It is essentially // the immutable meta-data of a Metric. The normal Metric implementations // included in this package manage their Desc under the hood. Users only have to // deal with Desc if they use advanced features like the ExpvarCollector or // custom Collectors and Metrics. // // Descriptors registered with the same registry have to fulfill certain // consistency and uniqueness criteria if they share the same fully-qualified // name: They must have the same help string and the same label names (aka label // dimensions) in each, constLabels and variableLabels, but they must differ in // the values of the constLabels. // // Descriptors that share the same fully-qualified names and the same label // values of their constLabels are considered equal. // // Use NewDesc to create new Desc instances. type Desc struct { // fqName has been built from Namespace, Subsystem, and Name. fqName string // help provides some helpful information about this metric. help string // constLabelPairs contains precalculated DTO label pairs based on // the constant labels. constLabelPairs []*dto.LabelPair // VariableLabels contains names of labels for which the metric // maintains variable values. variableLabels []string // id is a hash of the values of the ConstLabels and fqName. This // must be unique among all registered descriptors and can therefore be // used as an identifier of the descriptor. id uint64 // dimHash is a hash of the label names (preset and variable) and the // Help string. Each Desc with the same fqName must have the same // dimHash. dimHash uint64 // err is an error that occurred during construction. It is reported on // registration time. err error } // NewDesc allocates and initializes a new Desc. Errors are recorded in the Desc // and will be reported on registration time. variableLabels and constLabels can // be nil if no such labels should be set. fqName and help must not be empty. // // variableLabels only contain the label names. Their label values are variable // and therefore not part of the Desc. (They are managed within the Metric.) // // For constLabels, the label values are constant. Therefore, they are fully // specified in the Desc. See the Opts documentation for the implications of // constant labels. func NewDesc(fqName, help string, variableLabels []string, constLabels Labels) *Desc { d := &Desc{ fqName: fqName, help: help, variableLabels: variableLabels, } if help == "" { d.err = errors.New("empty help string") return d } if !model.IsValidMetricName(model.LabelValue(fqName)) { d.err = fmt.Errorf("%q is not a valid metric name", fqName) return d } // labelValues contains the label values of const labels (in order of // their sorted label names) plus the fqName (at position 0). labelValues := make([]string, 1, len(constLabels)+1) labelValues[0] = fqName labelNames := make([]string, 0, len(constLabels)+len(variableLabels)) labelNameSet := map[string]struct{}{} // First add only the const label names and sort them... for labelName := range constLabels { if !checkLabelName(labelName) { d.err = fmt.Errorf("%q is not a valid label name", labelName) return d } labelNames = append(labelNames, labelName) labelNameSet[labelName] = struct{}{} } sort.Strings(labelNames) // ... so that we can now add const label values in the order of their names. for _, labelName := range labelNames { labelValues = append(labelValues, constLabels[labelName]) } // Now add the variable label names, but prefix them with something that // cannot be in a regular label name. That prevents matching the label // dimension with a different mix between preset and variable labels. for _, labelName := range variableLabels { if !checkLabelName(labelName) { d.err = fmt.Errorf("%q is not a valid label name", labelName) return d } labelNames = append(labelNames, "$"+labelName) labelNameSet[labelName] = struct{}{} } if len(labelNames) != len(labelNameSet) { d.err = errors.New("duplicate label names") return d } vh := hashNew() for _, val := range labelValues { vh = hashAdd(vh, val) vh = hashAddByte(vh, separatorByte) } d.id = vh // Sort labelNames so that order doesn't matter for the hash. sort.Strings(labelNames) // Now hash together (in this order) the help string and the sorted // label names. lh := hashNew() lh = hashAdd(lh, help) lh = hashAddByte(lh, separatorByte) for _, labelName := range labelNames { lh = hashAdd(lh, labelName) lh = hashAddByte(lh, separatorByte) } d.dimHash = lh d.constLabelPairs = make([]*dto.LabelPair, 0, len(constLabels)) for n, v := range constLabels { d.constLabelPairs = append(d.constLabelPairs, &dto.LabelPair{ Name: proto.String(n), Value: proto.String(v), }) } sort.Sort(LabelPairSorter(d.constLabelPairs)) return d } // NewInvalidDesc returns an invalid descriptor, i.e. a descriptor with the // provided error set. If a collector returning such a descriptor is registered, // registration will fail with the provided error. NewInvalidDesc can be used by // a Collector to signal inability to describe itself. func NewInvalidDesc(err error) *Desc { return &Desc{ err: err, } } func (d *Desc) String() string { lpStrings := make([]string, 0, len(d.constLabelPairs)) for _, lp := range d.constLabelPairs { lpStrings = append( lpStrings, fmt.Sprintf("%s=%q", lp.GetName(), lp.GetValue()), ) } return fmt.Sprintf( "Desc{fqName: %q, help: %q, constLabels: {%s}, variableLabels: %v}", d.fqName, d.help, strings.Join(lpStrings, ","), d.variableLabels, ) } func checkLabelName(l string) bool { return model.LabelName(l).IsValid() && !strings.HasPrefix(l, reservedLabelPrefix) }