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+// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013 Prometheus Team.
+// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 The Magma Authors.
+// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Open Networking Foundation <support@opennetworking.org>
+//
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+syntax = "proto2";
+
+package io.prometheus.client;
+option java_package = "io.prometheus.client";
+
+// !!!!!!!!!!!!!
+// DO NOT MODIFY
+// !!!!!!!!!!!!!
+// This file is a copy of the open source prometheus library.
+// https://github.com/prometheus/client_model/blob/master/metrics.proto
+// The 'go_package' change is made locally, and needs to be upstreamed.
+option go_package = "github.com/prometheus/client_model/go";
+
+message LabelPair {
+  optional string name  = 1;
+  optional string value = 2;
+}
+
+enum MetricType {
+  COUNTER    = 0;
+  GAUGE      = 1;
+  SUMMARY    = 2;
+  UNTYPED    = 3;
+  HISTOGRAM  = 4;
+}
+
+message Gauge {
+  optional double value = 1;
+}
+
+message Counter {
+  optional double value = 1;
+}
+
+message Quantile {
+  optional double quantile = 1;
+  optional double value    = 2;
+}
+
+message Summary {
+  optional uint64   sample_count = 1;
+  optional double   sample_sum   = 2;
+  repeated Quantile quantile     = 3;
+}
+
+message Untyped {
+  optional double value = 1;
+}
+
+message Histogram {
+  optional uint64 sample_count = 1;
+  optional double sample_sum   = 2;
+  repeated Bucket bucket       = 3; // Ordered in increasing order of upper_bound, +Inf bucket is optional.
+}
+
+message Bucket {
+  optional uint64 cumulative_count = 1; // Cumulative in increasing order.
+  optional double upper_bound = 2;      // Inclusive.
+}
+
+message Metric {
+  repeated LabelPair label        = 1;
+  optional Gauge     gauge        = 2;
+  optional Counter   counter      = 3;
+  optional Summary   summary      = 4;
+  optional Untyped   untyped      = 5;
+  optional Histogram histogram    = 7;
+  optional int64     timestamp_ms = 6;
+}
+
+message MetricFamily {
+  optional string     name   = 1;
+  optional string     help   = 2;
+  optional MetricType type   = 3;
+  repeated Metric     metric = 4;
+}