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khenaidooab1f7bd2019-11-14 14:00:27 -05001// Copyright 2014 The Prometheus Authors
2// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
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11// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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13
14package prometheus
15
16import (
17 "strings"
18 "time"
19
khenaidood948f772021-08-11 17:49:24 -040020 //nolint:staticcheck // Ignore SA1019. Need to keep deprecated package for compatibility.
khenaidooab1f7bd2019-11-14 14:00:27 -050021 "github.com/golang/protobuf/proto"
khenaidood948f772021-08-11 17:49:24 -040022 "github.com/prometheus/common/model"
khenaidooab1f7bd2019-11-14 14:00:27 -050023
24 dto "github.com/prometheus/client_model/go"
25)
26
khenaidood948f772021-08-11 17:49:24 -040027var separatorByteSlice = []byte{model.SeparatorByte} // For convenient use with xxhash.
khenaidooab1f7bd2019-11-14 14:00:27 -050028
29// A Metric models a single sample value with its meta data being exported to
30// Prometheus. Implementations of Metric in this package are Gauge, Counter,
31// Histogram, Summary, and Untyped.
32type Metric interface {
33 // Desc returns the descriptor for the Metric. This method idempotently
34 // returns the same descriptor throughout the lifetime of the
35 // Metric. The returned descriptor is immutable by contract. A Metric
36 // unable to describe itself must return an invalid descriptor (created
37 // with NewInvalidDesc).
38 Desc() *Desc
39 // Write encodes the Metric into a "Metric" Protocol Buffer data
40 // transmission object.
41 //
42 // Metric implementations must observe concurrency safety as reads of
43 // this metric may occur at any time, and any blocking occurs at the
44 // expense of total performance of rendering all registered
45 // metrics. Ideally, Metric implementations should support concurrent
46 // readers.
47 //
48 // While populating dto.Metric, it is the responsibility of the
49 // implementation to ensure validity of the Metric protobuf (like valid
50 // UTF-8 strings or syntactically valid metric and label names). It is
51 // recommended to sort labels lexicographically. Callers of Write should
52 // still make sure of sorting if they depend on it.
53 Write(*dto.Metric) error
54 // TODO(beorn7): The original rationale of passing in a pre-allocated
55 // dto.Metric protobuf to save allocations has disappeared. The
56 // signature of this method should be changed to "Write() (*dto.Metric,
57 // error)".
58}
59
60// Opts bundles the options for creating most Metric types. Each metric
khenaidood948f772021-08-11 17:49:24 -040061// implementation XXX has its own XXXOpts type, but in most cases, it is just
khenaidooab1f7bd2019-11-14 14:00:27 -050062// an alias of this type (which might change when the requirement arises.)
63//
64// It is mandatory to set Name to a non-empty string. All other fields are
65// optional and can safely be left at their zero value, although it is strongly
66// encouraged to set a Help string.
67type Opts struct {
68 // Namespace, Subsystem, and Name are components of the fully-qualified
69 // name of the Metric (created by joining these components with
70 // "_"). Only Name is mandatory, the others merely help structuring the
71 // name. Note that the fully-qualified name of the metric must be a
72 // valid Prometheus metric name.
73 Namespace string
74 Subsystem string
75 Name string
76
77 // Help provides information about this metric.
78 //
79 // Metrics with the same fully-qualified name must have the same Help
80 // string.
81 Help string
82
83 // ConstLabels are used to attach fixed labels to this metric. Metrics
84 // with the same fully-qualified name must have the same label names in
85 // their ConstLabels.
86 //
87 // ConstLabels are only used rarely. In particular, do not use them to
88 // attach the same labels to all your metrics. Those use cases are
89 // better covered by target labels set by the scraping Prometheus
90 // server, or by one specific metric (e.g. a build_info or a
91 // machine_role metric). See also
khenaidood948f772021-08-11 17:49:24 -040092 // https://prometheus.io/docs/instrumenting/writing_exporters/#target-labels-not-static-scraped-labels
khenaidooab1f7bd2019-11-14 14:00:27 -050093 ConstLabels Labels
94}
95
96// BuildFQName joins the given three name components by "_". Empty name
97// components are ignored. If the name parameter itself is empty, an empty
98// string is returned, no matter what. Metric implementations included in this
99// library use this function internally to generate the fully-qualified metric
100// name from the name component in their Opts. Users of the library will only
101// need this function if they implement their own Metric or instantiate a Desc
102// (with NewDesc) directly.
103func BuildFQName(namespace, subsystem, name string) string {
104 if name == "" {
105 return ""
106 }
107 switch {
108 case namespace != "" && subsystem != "":
109 return strings.Join([]string{namespace, subsystem, name}, "_")
110 case namespace != "":
111 return strings.Join([]string{namespace, name}, "_")
112 case subsystem != "":
113 return strings.Join([]string{subsystem, name}, "_")
114 }
115 return name
116}
117
118// labelPairSorter implements sort.Interface. It is used to sort a slice of
119// dto.LabelPair pointers.
120type labelPairSorter []*dto.LabelPair
121
122func (s labelPairSorter) Len() int {
123 return len(s)
124}
125
126func (s labelPairSorter) Swap(i, j int) {
127 s[i], s[j] = s[j], s[i]
128}
129
130func (s labelPairSorter) Less(i, j int) bool {
131 return s[i].GetName() < s[j].GetName()
132}
133
134type invalidMetric struct {
135 desc *Desc
136 err error
137}
138
139// NewInvalidMetric returns a metric whose Write method always returns the
140// provided error. It is useful if a Collector finds itself unable to collect
141// a metric and wishes to report an error to the registry.
142func NewInvalidMetric(desc *Desc, err error) Metric {
143 return &invalidMetric{desc, err}
144}
145
146func (m *invalidMetric) Desc() *Desc { return m.desc }
147
148func (m *invalidMetric) Write(*dto.Metric) error { return m.err }
149
150type timestampedMetric struct {
151 Metric
152 t time.Time
153}
154
155func (m timestampedMetric) Write(pb *dto.Metric) error {
156 e := m.Metric.Write(pb)
157 pb.TimestampMs = proto.Int64(m.t.Unix()*1000 + int64(m.t.Nanosecond()/1000000))
158 return e
159}
160
161// NewMetricWithTimestamp returns a new Metric wrapping the provided Metric in a
162// way that it has an explicit timestamp set to the provided Time. This is only
163// useful in rare cases as the timestamp of a Prometheus metric should usually
164// be set by the Prometheus server during scraping. Exceptions include mirroring
165// metrics with given timestamps from other metric
166// sources.
167//
168// NewMetricWithTimestamp works best with MustNewConstMetric,
169// MustNewConstHistogram, and MustNewConstSummary, see example.
170//
171// Currently, the exposition formats used by Prometheus are limited to
172// millisecond resolution. Thus, the provided time will be rounded down to the
173// next full millisecond value.
174func NewMetricWithTimestamp(t time.Time, m Metric) Metric {
175 return timestampedMetric{Metric: m, t: t}
176}