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This change introduces use of the runtime/metrics package in place of runtime.MemStats for Go 1.17 or later. The runtime/metrics package was introduced in Go 1.16, but not all the old metrics were accounted for until 1.17. The runtime/metrics package offers several advantages over using runtime.MemStats: * The list of metrics and their descriptions are machine-readable, allowing new metrics to get added without any additional work. * Detailed histogram-based metrics are now available, offering much deeper insights into the Go runtime. * The runtime/metrics API is significantly more efficient than runtime.MemStats, even with the additional metrics added, because it does not require any stop-the-world events. That being said, integrating the package comes with some caveats, some of which were discussed in #842. Namely: * The old MemStats-based metrics need to continue working, so they're exported under their old names backed by equivalent runtime/metrics metrics. * Earlier versions of Go need to continue working, so the old code remains, but behind a build tag. Finally, a few notes about the implementation: * This change includes a whole bunch of refactoring to avoid significant code duplication. * This change adds a new histogram metric type specifically optimized for runtime/metrics histograms. This type's methods also include additional logic to deal with differences in bounds conventions. * This change makes a whole bunch of decisions about how runtime/metrics names are translated. * This change adds a `go generate` script to generate a list of expected runtime/metrics names for a given Go version for auditing. Users of new versions of Go will transparently be allowed to use new metrics, however. Signed-off-by: Michael Anthony Knyszek <mknyszek@google.com> |
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README.md
Prometheus Go client library
This is the Go client library for Prometheus. It has two separate parts, one for instrumenting application code, and one for creating clients that talk to the Prometheus HTTP API.
This library requires Go1.13 or later.
Important note about releases and stability
This repository generally follows Semantic Versioning. However, the API client in prometheus/client_golang/api/… is still considered experimental. Breaking changes of the API client will not trigger a new major release. The same is true for selected other new features explicitly marked as EXPERIMENTAL in CHANGELOG.md.
Features that require breaking changes in the stable parts of the repository are being batched up and tracked in the v2 milestone. The v2 development happens in a separate branch for the time being. v2 releases off that branch will happen once sufficient stability is reached. In view of the widespread use of this repository, v1 and v2 will coexist for a while to enable a convenient transition.
Instrumenting applications
The
prometheus directory
contains the instrumentation library. See the
guide on the Prometheus
website to learn more about instrumenting applications.
The
examples directory
contains simple examples of instrumented code.
Client for the Prometheus HTTP API
The
api/prometheus directory
contains the client for the
Prometheus HTTP API. It allows you
to write Go applications that query time series data from a Prometheus
server. It is still in alpha stage.
Where is model, extraction, and text?
The model packages has been moved to
prometheus/common/model.
The extraction and text packages are now contained in
prometheus/common/expfmt.
Contributing and community
See the contributing guidelines and the Community section of the homepage.