// 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. package testutil import ( "bytes" "fmt" "io" "github.com/prometheus/common/expfmt" dto "github.com/prometheus/client_model/go" "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{} m.Write(pb) 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)) } // CollectAndCompare registers the provided Collector with a newly created // pedantic Registry. It then does the same as GatherAndCompare, gathering the // metrics from the pedantic Registry. 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: %s", 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. func GatherAndCompare(g prometheus.Gatherer, expected io.Reader, metricNames ...string) error { got, err := g.Gather() if err != nil { return fmt.Errorf("gathering metrics failed: %s", err) } if metricNames != nil { got = filterMetrics(got, metricNames) } var tp expfmt.TextParser wantRaw, err := tp.TextToMetricFamilies(expected) if err != nil { return fmt.Errorf("parsing expected metrics failed: %s", err) } want := internal.NormalizeMetricFamilies(wantRaw) if len(got) != len(want) { return notMatchingError(got, want) } for i := range got { if got[i].String() != want[i].String() { return notMatchingError(got, want) } } return nil } // notMatchingError encodes both provided slices of metric families into the // text format and creates a readable error message from the result. func notMatchingError(got, want []*dto.MetricFamily) error { var gotBuf, wantBuf bytes.Buffer enc := expfmt.NewEncoder(&gotBuf, expfmt.FmtText) for _, mf := range got { if err := enc.Encode(mf); err != nil { return fmt.Errorf("encoding gathered metrics failed: %s", err) } } enc = expfmt.NewEncoder(&wantBuf, expfmt.FmtText) for _, mf := range want { if err := enc.Encode(mf); err != nil { return fmt.Errorf("encoding expected metrics failed: %s", err) } } return fmt.Errorf(` metric output does not match expectation; want: %s got: %s `, wantBuf.String(), gotBuf.String()) } 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 }