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// Pushgateway (package push).
//
// All exported functions and methods are safe to be used concurrently unless
//specified otherwise.
// specified otherwise.
//
// A Basic Example
//
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// SummaryVec, HistogramVec, and UntypedVec are not.
//
// To create instances of Metrics and their vector versions, you need a suitable
// …Opts struct, i.e. GaugeOpts, CounterOpts, SummaryOpts,
// HistogramOpts, or UntypedOpts.
// …Opts struct, i.e. GaugeOpts, CounterOpts, SummaryOpts, HistogramOpts, or
// UntypedOpts.
//
// Custom Collectors and constant Metrics
//
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// Metric instances “on the fly” using NewConstMetric, NewConstHistogram, and
// NewConstSummary (and their respective Must… versions). That will happen in
// the Collect method. The Describe method has to return separate Desc
// instances, representative of the “throw-away” metrics to be created
// later. NewDesc comes in handy to create those Desc instances.
// instances, representative of the “throw-away” metrics to be created later.
// NewDesc comes in handy to create those Desc instances.
//
// The Collector example illustrates the use case. You can also look at the
// source code of the processCollector (mirroring process metrics), the
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// Advanced Uses of the Registry
//
// While MustRegister is the by far most common way of registering a Collector,
// sometimes you might want to handle the errors the registration might
// cause. As suggested by the name, MustRegister panics if an error occurs. With
// the Register function, the error is returned and can be handled.
// sometimes you might want to handle the errors the registration might cause.
// As suggested by the name, MustRegister panics if an error occurs. With the
// Register function, the error is returned and can be handled.
//
// An error is returned if the registered Collector is incompatible or
// inconsistent with already registered metrics. The registry aims for
// consistency of the collected metrics according to the Prometheus data
// model. Inconsistencies are ideally detected at registration time, not at
// collect time. The former will usually be detected at start-up time of a
// program, while the latter will only happen at scrape time, possibly not even
// on the first scrape if the inconsistency only becomes relevant later. That is
// the main reason why a Collector and a Metric have to describe themselves to
// the registry.
// consistency of the collected metrics according to the Prometheus data model.
// Inconsistencies are ideally detected at registration time, not at collect
// time. The former will usually be detected at start-up time of a program,
// while the latter will only happen at scrape time, possibly not even on the
// first scrape if the inconsistency only becomes relevant later. That is the
// main reason why a Collector and a Metric have to describe themselves to the
// registry.
//
// So far, everything we did operated on the so-called default registry, as it
// can be found in the global DefaultRegistry variable. With NewRegistry, you
// can create a custom registry, or you can even implement the Registerer or
// Gatherer interfaces yourself. The methods Register and Unregister work in
// the same way on a custom registry as the global functions Register and
// Unregister on the default registry.
// Gatherer interfaces yourself. The methods Register and Unregister work in the
// same way on a custom registry as the global functions Register and Unregister
// on the default registry.
//
// There are a number of uses for custom registries: You can use registries
// with special properties, see NewPedanticRegistry. You can avoid global state,
// as it is imposed by the DefaultRegistry. You can use multiple registries at
// the same time to expose different metrics in different ways. You can use
// separate registries for testing purposes.
// There are a number of uses for custom registries: You can use registries with
// special properties, see NewPedanticRegistry. You can avoid global state, as
// it is imposed by the DefaultRegistry. You can use multiple registries at the
// same time to expose different metrics in different ways. You can use separate
// registries for testing purposes.
//
// Also note that the DefaultRegistry comes registered with a Collector for Go
// runtime metrics (via NewGoCollector) and a Collector for process metrics (via
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// The Registry implements the Gatherer interface. The caller of the Gather
// method can then expose the gathered metrics in some way. Usually, the metrics
// are served via HTTP on the /metrics endpoint. That's happening in the example
// above. The tools to expose metrics via HTTP are in the promhttp
// sub-package. (The top-level functions in the prometheus package are
// deprecated.)
// above. The tools to expose metrics via HTTP are in the promhttp sub-package.
// (The top-level functions in the prometheus package are deprecated.)
//
// Pushing to the Pushgateway
//
// Function for pushing to the Pushgateway can be found in the push sub-package.
//
// Graphite Bridge
//
// Functions and examples to push metrics from a Gatherer to Graphite can be
// found in the graphite sub-package.
//
// Other Means of Exposition
//
// More ways of exposing metrics can easily be added. Sending metrics to
// Graphite would be an example that will soon be implemented.
// More ways of exposing metrics can easily be added by following the approaches
// of the existing implementations.
package prometheus