Add a simple buildInfoCollector

Signed-off-by: beorn7 <beorn@grafana.com>

examples/random/main.go

@@ -63,6 +63,8 @@ func init() {
 	// Register the summary and the histogram with Prometheus's default registry.
 	prometheus.MustRegister(rpcDurations)
 	prometheus.MustRegister(rpcDurationsHistogram)
+	// Add Go module build info.
+	prometheus.MustRegister(prometheus.NewBuildInfoCollector())
 }
 
 func main() {

prometheus/build_info.go

@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+// Copyright 2019 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.
+
+// +build go1.12
+
+package prometheus
+
+import "runtime/debug"
+
+// readBuildInfo is a wrapper around debug.ReadBuildInfo for Go 1.12+.
+func readBuildInfo() (path, version, sum string) {
+	path, version, sum = "unknown", "unknown", "unknown"
+	if bi, ok := debug.ReadBuildInfo(); ok {
+		path = bi.Main.Path
+		version = bi.Main.Version
+		sum = bi.Main.Sum
+	}
+	return
+}

prometheus/build_info_pre_1.12.go

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+// Copyright 2019 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.
+
+// +build !go1.12
+
+package prometheus
+
+// readBuildInfo is a wrapper around debug.ReadBuildInfo for Go versions before
+// 1.12. Remove this whole file once the minimum supported Go version is 1.12.
+func readBuildInfo() (path, version, sum string) {
+	return "unknown", "unknown", "unknown"
+}

prometheus/go_collector.go

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ type goCollector struct {
 	msMaxAge        time.Duration           // Maximum allowed age of old memstats.
 }
 
-// NewGoCollector returns a collector which exports metrics about the current Go
+// NewGoCollector returns a collector that exports metrics about the current Go
 // process. This includes memory stats. To collect those, runtime.ReadMemStats
 // is called. This requires to “stop the world”, which usually only happens for
 // garbage collection (GC). Take the following implications into account when
@@ -364,3 +364,33 @@ type memStatsMetrics []struct {
 	eval    func(*runtime.MemStats) float64
 	valType ValueType
 }
+
+// NewBuildInfoCollector returns a collector collecting a single metric
+// "go_build_info" with the constant value 1 and three labels "path", "version",
+// and "checksum". Their label values contain the main module path, version, and
+// checksum, respectively. The labels will only have meaningful values if the
+// binary is built with Go module support and from source code retrieved from
+// the source repository (rather than the local file system). This is usually
+// accomplished by building from outside of GOPATH, specifying the full address
+// of the main package, e.g. "GO111MODULE=on go run
+// github.com/prometheus/client_golang/examples/random". If built without Go
+// module support, all label values will be "unknown". If built with Go module
+// support but using the source code from the local file system, the "path" will
+// be set appropriately, but "checksum" will be empty and "version" will be
+// "(devel)".
+//
+// This collector uses only the build information for the main module. See
+// https://github.com/povilasv/prommod for an example of a collector for the
+// module dependencies.
+func NewBuildInfoCollector() Collector {
+	path, version, sum := readBuildInfo()
+	c := &selfCollector{MustNewConstMetric(
+		NewDesc(
+			"go_build_info",
+			"Build information about the main Go module.",
+			nil, Labels{"path": path, "version": version, "checksum": sum},
+		),
+		GaugeValue, 1)}
+	c.init(c.self)
+	return c
+}