// Copyright 2014 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 ( "strings" dto "github.com/prometheus/client_model/go" ) const separatorByte byte = 255 // A Metric models a single sample value with its meta data being exported to // Prometheus. Implementations of Metric in this package are Gauge, Counter, // Histogram, Summary, and Untyped. type Metric interface { // Desc returns the descriptor for the Metric. This method idempotently // returns the same descriptor throughout the lifetime of the // Metric. The returned descriptor is immutable by contract. A Metric // unable to describe itself must return an invalid descriptor (created // with NewInvalidDesc). Desc() *Desc // Write encodes the Metric into a "Metric" Protocol Buffer data // transmission object. // // Metric implementations must observe concurrency safety as reads of // this metric may occur at any time, and any blocking occurs at the // expense of total performance of rendering all registered // metrics. Ideally, Metric implementations should support concurrent // readers. // // While populating dto.Metric, it is the responsibility of the // implementation to ensure validity of the Metric protobuf (like valid // UTF-8 strings or syntactically valid metric and label names). It is // recommended to sort labels lexicographically. (Implementers may find // LabelPairSorter useful for that.) Callers of Write should still make // sure of sorting if they depend on it. Write(*dto.Metric) error // TODO(beorn7): The original rationale of passing in a pre-allocated // dto.Metric protobuf to save allocations has disappeared. The // signature of this method should be changed to "Write() (*dto.Metric, // error)". } // Opts bundles the options for creating most Metric types. Each metric // implementation XXX has its own XXXOpts type, but in most cases, it is just be // an alias of this type (which might change when the requirement arises.) // // It is mandatory to set Name and Help to a non-empty string. All other fields // are optional and can safely be left at their zero value. type Opts struct { // Namespace, Subsystem, and Name are components of the fully-qualified // name of the Metric (created by joining these components with // "_"). Only Name is mandatory, the others merely help structuring the // name. Note that the fully-qualified name of the metric must be a // valid Prometheus metric name. Namespace string Subsystem string Name string // Help provides information about this metric. Mandatory! // // Metrics with the same fully-qualified name must have the same Help // string. Help string // ConstLabels are used to attach fixed labels to this metric. Metrics // 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 Labels } // BuildFQName joins the given three name components by "_". Empty name // components are ignored. If the name parameter itself is empty, an empty // string is returned, no matter what. Metric implementations included in this // library use this function internally to generate the fully-qualified metric // name from the name component in their Opts. Users of the library will only // need this function if they implement their own Metric or instantiate a Desc // (with NewDesc) directly. func BuildFQName(namespace, subsystem, name string) string { if name == "" { return "" } switch { case namespace != "" && subsystem != "": return strings.Join([]string{namespace, subsystem, name}, "_") case namespace != "": return strings.Join([]string{namespace, name}, "_") case subsystem != "": return strings.Join([]string{subsystem, name}, "_") } return name } // LabelPairSorter implements sort.Interface. It is used to sort a slice of // dto.LabelPair pointers. This is useful for implementing the Write method of // custom metrics. type LabelPairSorter []*dto.LabelPair func (s LabelPairSorter) Len() int { return len(s) } func (s LabelPairSorter) Swap(i, j int) { s[i], s[j] = s[j], s[i] } 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 } // NewInvalidMetric returns a metric whose Write method always returns the // provided error. It is useful if a Collector finds itself unable to collect // a metric and wishes to report an error to the registry. func NewInvalidMetric(desc *Desc, err error) Metric { return &invalidMetric{desc, err} } func (m *invalidMetric) Desc() *Desc { return m.desc } func (m *invalidMetric) Write(*dto.Metric) error { return m.err }