// Copyright 2014 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 prometheus_test import ( "runtime" "github.com/golang/protobuf/proto" dto "github.com/prometheus/client_model/go" "github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus" ) func NewCallbackMetric(desc *prometheus.Desc, callback func() float64) *CallbackMetric { result := &CallbackMetric{desc: desc, callback: callback} result.Init(result) // Initialize the SelfCollector. return result } // TODO: Come up with a better example. // CallbackMetric is an example for a user-defined Metric that exports the // result of a function call as a metric of type "untyped" without any // labels. It uses SelfCollector to turn the Metric into a Collector so that it // can be registered with Prometheus. // // Note that this example is pretty much academic as the prometheus package // already provides an UntypedFunc type. type CallbackMetric struct { prometheus.SelfCollector desc *prometheus.Desc callback func() float64 } func (cm *CallbackMetric) Desc() *prometheus.Desc { return cm.desc } func (cm *CallbackMetric) Write(m *dto.Metric) error { m.Untyped = &dto.Untyped{Value: proto.Float64(cm.callback())} return nil } func ExampleSelfCollector() { m := NewCallbackMetric( prometheus.NewDesc( "runtime_goroutines_count", "Total number of goroutines that currently exist.", nil, nil, // No labels, these must be nil. ), func() float64 { return float64(runtime.NumGoroutine()) }, ) prometheus.MustRegister(m) }