client_golang/README.md

# Prometheus Go client library

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This is the [Go](http://golang.org) client library for
[Prometheus](http://prometheus.io).

## Instrumenting applications

For instrumenting your Go application code with Prometheus metrics, see the
[documentation of the exposition client](https://godoc.org/github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus).

## Consuming exported metrics

If you want to process metrics exported by a Prometheus client, see the
[consumption library documentation](https://godoc.org/github.com/prometheus/client_golang/extraction).
(The Prometheus server is using that library.)

# Testing

    $ go test ./...

## Contributing and community

See the [contributing guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md) and the
[Community section](http://prometheus.io/community/) of the homepage.