// Copyright 2018 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 testutil provides helpers to test code using the prometheus package // of client_golang. // // While writing unit tests to verify correct instrumentation of your code, it's // a common mistake to mostly test the instrumentation library instead of your // own code. Rather than verifying that a prometheus.Counter's value has changed // as expected or that it shows up in the exposition after registration, it is // in general more robust and more faithful to the concept of unit tests to use // mock implementations of the prometheus.Counter and prometheus.Registerer // interfaces that simply assert that the Add or Register methods have been // called with the expected arguments. However, this might be overkill in simple // scenarios. The ToFloat64 function is provided for simple inspection of a // single-value metric, but it has to be used with caution. // // End-to-end tests to verify all or larger parts of the metrics exposition can // be implemented with the CollectAndCompare or GatherAndCompare functions. The // most appropriate use is not so much testing instrumentation of your code, but // testing custom prometheus.Collector implementations and in particular whole // exporters, i.e. programs that retrieve telemetry data from a 3rd party source // and convert it into Prometheus metrics. // // In a similar pattern, CollectAndLint and GatherAndLint can be used to detect // metrics that have issues with their name, type, or metadata without being // necessarily invalid, e.g. a counter with a name missing the “_total” suffix. package testutil import ( "bytes" "errors" "fmt" "io" "net/http" "github.com/kylelemons/godebug/diff" dto "github.com/prometheus/client_model/go" "github.com/prometheus/common/expfmt" "github.com/prometheus/common/model" "google.golang.org/protobuf/proto" "github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus" "github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus/internal" ) // ToFloat64 collects all Metrics from the provided Collector. It expects that // this results in exactly one Metric being collected, which must be a Gauge, // Counter, or Untyped. In all other cases, ToFloat64 panics. ToFloat64 returns // the value of the collected Metric. // // The Collector provided is typically a simple instance of Gauge or Counter, or // – less commonly – a GaugeVec or CounterVec with exactly one element. But any // Collector fulfilling the prerequisites described above will do. // // Use this function with caution. It is computationally very expensive and thus // not suited at all to read values from Metrics in regular code. This is really // only for testing purposes, and even for testing, other approaches are often // more appropriate (see this package's documentation). // // A clear anti-pattern would be to use a metric type from the prometheus // package to track values that are also needed for something else than the // exposition of Prometheus metrics. For example, you would like to track the // number of items in a queue because your code should reject queuing further // items if a certain limit is reached. It is tempting to track the number of // items in a prometheus.Gauge, as it is then easily available as a metric for // exposition, too. However, then you would need to call ToFloat64 in your // regular code, potentially quite often. The recommended way is to track the // number of items conventionally (in the way you would have done it without // considering Prometheus metrics) and then expose the number with a // prometheus.GaugeFunc. func ToFloat64(c prometheus.Collector) float64 { var ( m prometheus.Metric mCount int mChan = make(chan prometheus.Metric) done = make(chan struct{}) ) go func() { for m = range mChan { mCount++ } close(done) }() c.Collect(mChan) close(mChan) <-done if mCount != 1 { panic(fmt.Errorf("collected %d metrics instead of exactly 1", mCount)) } pb := &dto.Metric{} if err := m.Write(pb); err != nil { panic(fmt.Errorf("error happened while collecting metrics: %w", err)) } if pb.Gauge != nil { return pb.Gauge.GetValue() } if pb.Counter != nil { return pb.Counter.GetValue() } if pb.Untyped != nil { return pb.Untyped.GetValue() } panic(fmt.Errorf("collected a non-gauge/counter/untyped metric: %s", pb)) } // CollectAndCount registers the provided Collector with a newly created // pedantic Registry. It then calls GatherAndCount with that Registry and with // the provided metricNames. In the unlikely case that the registration or the // gathering fails, this function panics. (This is inconsistent with the other // CollectAnd… functions in this package and has historical reasons. Changing // the function signature would be a breaking change and will therefore only // happen with the next major version bump.) func CollectAndCount(c prometheus.Collector, metricNames ...string) int { reg := prometheus.NewPedanticRegistry() if err := reg.Register(c); err != nil { panic(fmt.Errorf("registering collector failed: %w", err)) } result, err := GatherAndCount(reg, metricNames...) if err != nil { panic(err) } return result } // GatherAndCount gathers all metrics from the provided Gatherer and counts // them. It returns the number of metric children in all gathered metric // families together. If any metricNames are provided, only metrics with those // names are counted. func GatherAndCount(g prometheus.Gatherer, metricNames ...string) (int, error) { got, err := g.Gather() if err != nil { return 0, fmt.Errorf("gathering metrics failed: %w", err) } if metricNames != nil { got = filterMetrics(got, metricNames) } result := 0 for _, mf := range got { result += len(mf.GetMetric()) } return result, nil } // ScrapeAndCompare calls a remote exporter's endpoint which is expected to return some metrics in // plain text format. Then it compares it with the results that the `expected` would return. // If the `metricNames` is not empty it would filter the comparison only to the given metric names. // // NOTE: Be mindful of accidental discrepancies between expected and metricNames; metricNames filter // both expected and scraped metrics. See https://github.com/prometheus/client_golang/issues/1351. func ScrapeAndCompare(url string, expected io.Reader, metricNames ...string) error { resp, err := http.Get(url) if err != nil { return fmt.Errorf("scraping metrics failed: %w", err) } defer resp.Body.Close() if resp.StatusCode != http.StatusOK { return fmt.Errorf("the scraping target returned a status code other than 200: %d", resp.StatusCode) } scraped, err := convertReaderToMetricFamily(resp.Body) if err != nil { return err } wanted, err := convertReaderToMetricFamily(expected) if err != nil { return err } return compareMetricFamilies(scraped, wanted, metricNames...) } // CollectAndCompare collects the metrics identified by `metricNames` and compares them in the Prometheus text // exposition format to the data read from expected. // // NOTE: Be mindful of accidental discrepancies between expected and metricNames; metricNames filter // both expected and collected metrics. See https://github.com/prometheus/client_golang/issues/1351. func CollectAndCompare(c prometheus.Collector, expected io.Reader, metricNames ...string) error { reg := prometheus.NewPedanticRegistry() if err := reg.Register(c); err != nil { return fmt.Errorf("registering collector failed: %w", err) } return GatherAndCompare(reg, expected, metricNames...) } // GatherAndCompare gathers all metrics from the provided Gatherer and compares // it to an expected output read from the provided Reader in the Prometheus text // exposition format. If any metricNames are provided, only metrics with those // names are compared. // // NOTE: Be mindful of accidental discrepancies between expected and metricNames; metricNames filter // both expected and gathered metrics. See https://github.com/prometheus/client_golang/issues/1351. func GatherAndCompare(g prometheus.Gatherer, expected io.Reader, metricNames ...string) error { return TransactionalGatherAndCompare(prometheus.ToTransactionalGatherer(g), expected, metricNames...) } // TransactionalGatherAndCompare gathers all metrics from the provided Gatherer and compares // it to an expected output read from the provided Reader in the Prometheus text // exposition format. If any metricNames are provided, only metrics with those // names are compared. // // NOTE: Be mindful of accidental discrepancies between expected and metricNames; metricNames filter // both expected and gathered metrics. See https://github.com/prometheus/client_golang/issues/1351. func TransactionalGatherAndCompare(g prometheus.TransactionalGatherer, expected io.Reader, metricNames ...string) error { got, done, err := g.Gather() defer done() if err != nil { return fmt.Errorf("gathering metrics failed: %w", err) } wanted, err := convertReaderToMetricFamily(expected) if err != nil { return err } return compareMetricFamilies(got, wanted, metricNames...) } // CollectAndFormat collects the metrics identified by `metricNames` and returns them in the given format. func CollectAndFormat(c prometheus.Collector, format expfmt.FormatType, metricNames ...string) ([]byte, error) { reg := prometheus.NewPedanticRegistry() if err := reg.Register(c); err != nil { return nil, fmt.Errorf("registering collector failed: %w", err) } gotFiltered, err := reg.Gather() if err != nil { return nil, fmt.Errorf("gathering metrics failed: %w", err) } gotFiltered = filterMetrics(gotFiltered, metricNames) var gotFormatted bytes.Buffer enc := expfmt.NewEncoder(&gotFormatted, expfmt.NewFormat(format)) for _, mf := range gotFiltered { if err := enc.Encode(mf); err != nil { return nil, fmt.Errorf("encoding gathered metrics failed: %w", err) } } return gotFormatted.Bytes(), nil } // convertReaderToMetricFamily would read from a io.Reader object and convert it to a slice of // dto.MetricFamily. func convertReaderToMetricFamily(reader io.Reader) ([]*dto.MetricFamily, error) { var tp expfmt.TextParser notNormalized, err := tp.TextToMetricFamilies(reader) if err != nil { return nil, fmt.Errorf("converting reader to metric families failed: %w", err) } // The text protocol handles empty help fields inconsistently. When // encoding, any non-nil value, include the empty string, produces a // "# HELP" line. But when decoding, the help field is only set to a // non-nil value if the "# HELP" line contains a non-empty value. // // Because metrics in a registry always have non-nil help fields, populate // any nil help fields in the parsed metrics with the empty string so that // when we compare text encodings, the results are consistent. for _, metric := range notNormalized { if metric.Help == nil { metric.Help = proto.String("") } } return internal.NormalizeMetricFamilies(notNormalized), nil } // compareMetricFamilies would compare 2 slices of metric families, and optionally filters both of // them to the `metricNames` provided. func compareMetricFamilies(got, expected []*dto.MetricFamily, metricNames ...string) error { if metricNames != nil { got = filterMetrics(got, metricNames) expected = filterMetrics(expected, metricNames) } return compare(got, expected) } // compare encodes both provided slices of metric families into the text format, // compares their string message, and returns an error if they do not match. // The error contains the encoded text of both the desired and the actual // result. func compare(got, want []*dto.MetricFamily) error { var gotBuf, wantBuf bytes.Buffer enc := expfmt.NewEncoder(&gotBuf, expfmt.NewFormat(expfmt.TypeTextPlain).WithEscapingScheme(model.NoEscaping)) for _, mf := range got { if err := enc.Encode(mf); err != nil { return fmt.Errorf("encoding gathered metrics failed: %w", err) } } enc = expfmt.NewEncoder(&wantBuf, expfmt.NewFormat(expfmt.TypeTextPlain).WithEscapingScheme(model.NoEscaping)) for _, mf := range want { if err := enc.Encode(mf); err != nil { return fmt.Errorf("encoding expected metrics failed: %w", err) } } if diffErr := diff.Diff(gotBuf.String(), wantBuf.String()); diffErr != "" { return errors.New(diffErr) } return nil } func filterMetrics(metrics []*dto.MetricFamily, names []string) []*dto.MetricFamily { var filtered []*dto.MetricFamily for _, m := range metrics { for _, name := range names { if m.GetName() == name { filtered = append(filtered, m) break } } } return filtered }