// 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 ( "fmt" "math" "net/http" "os" "runtime" "sort" "time" dto "github.com/prometheus/client_model/go" "github.com/golang/protobuf/proto" "github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus" ) func ExampleGauge() { opsQueued := prometheus.NewGauge(prometheus.GaugeOpts{ Namespace: "our_company", Subsystem: "blob_storage", Name: "ops_queued", Help: "Number of blob storage operations waiting to be processed.", }) prometheus.MustRegister(opsQueued) // 10 operations queued by the goroutine managing incoming requests. opsQueued.Add(10) // A worker goroutine has picked up a waiting operation. opsQueued.Dec() // And once more... opsQueued.Dec() } func ExampleGaugeVec() { opsQueued := prometheus.NewGaugeVec( prometheus.GaugeOpts{ Namespace: "our_company", Subsystem: "blob_storage", Name: "ops_queued", Help: "Number of blob storage operations waiting to be processed, partitioned by user and type.", }, []string{ // Which user has requested the operation? "user", // Of what type is the operation? "type", }, ) prometheus.MustRegister(opsQueued) // Increase a value using compact (but order-sensitive!) WithLabelValues(). opsQueued.WithLabelValues("bob", "put").Add(4) // Increase a value with a map using WithLabels. More verbose, but order // doesn't matter anymore. opsQueued.With(prometheus.Labels{"type": "delete", "user": "alice"}).Inc() } func ExampleGaugeFunc() { if err := prometheus.Register(prometheus.NewGaugeFunc( prometheus.GaugeOpts{ Subsystem: "runtime", Name: "goroutines_count", Help: "Number of goroutines that currently exist.", }, func() float64 { return float64(runtime.NumGoroutine()) }, )); err == nil { fmt.Println("GaugeFunc 'goroutines_count' registered.") } // Note that the count of goroutines is a gauge (and not a counter) as // it can go up and down. // Output: // GaugeFunc 'goroutines_count' registered. } func ExampleCounter() { pushCounter := prometheus.NewCounter(prometheus.CounterOpts{ Name: "repository_pushes", // Note: No help string... }) err := prometheus.Register(pushCounter) // ... so this will return an error. if err != nil { fmt.Println("Push counter couldn't be registered, no counting will happen:", err) return } // Try it once more, this time with a help string. pushCounter = prometheus.NewCounter(prometheus.CounterOpts{ Name: "repository_pushes", Help: "Number of pushes to external repository.", }) err = prometheus.Register(pushCounter) if err != nil { fmt.Println("Push counter couldn't be registered AGAIN, no counting will happen:", err) return } pushComplete := make(chan struct{}) // TODO: Start a goroutine that performs repository pushes and reports // each completion via the channel. for _ = range pushComplete { pushCounter.Inc() } // Output: // Push counter couldn't be registered, no counting will happen: descriptor Desc{fqName: "repository_pushes", help: "", constLabels: {}, variableLabels: []} is invalid: empty help string } func ExampleCounterVec() { httpReqs := prometheus.NewCounterVec( prometheus.CounterOpts{ Name: "http_requests_total", Help: "How many HTTP requests processed, partitioned by status code and HTTP method.", }, []string{"code", "method"}, ) prometheus.MustRegister(httpReqs) httpReqs.WithLabelValues("404", "POST").Add(42) // If you have to access the same set of labels very frequently, it // might be good to retrieve the metric only once and keep a handle to // it. But beware of deletion of that metric, see below! m := httpReqs.WithLabelValues("200", "GET") for i := 0; i < 1000000; i++ { m.Inc() } // Delete a metric from the vector. If you have previously kept a handle // to that metric (as above), future updates via that handle will go // unseen (even if you re-create a metric with the same label set // later). httpReqs.DeleteLabelValues("200", "GET") // Same thing with the more verbose Labels syntax. httpReqs.Delete(prometheus.Labels{"method": "GET", "code": "200"}) } func ExampleInstrumentHandler() { // Handle the "/doc" endpoint with the standard http.FileServer handler. // By wrapping the handler with InstrumentHandler, request count, // request and response sizes, and request latency are automatically // exported to Prometheus, partitioned by HTTP status code and method // and by the handler name (here "fileserver"). http.Handle("/doc", prometheus.InstrumentHandler( "fileserver", http.FileServer(http.Dir("/usr/share/doc")), )) // The Prometheus handler still has to be registered to handle the // "/metrics" endpoint. The handler returned by prometheus.Handler() is // already instrumented - with "prometheus" as the handler name. In this // example, we want the handler name to be "metrics", so we instrument // the uninstrumented Prometheus handler ourselves. http.Handle("/metrics", prometheus.InstrumentHandler( "metrics", prometheus.UninstrumentedHandler(), )) } func ExampleLabelPairSorter() { labelPairs := []*dto.LabelPair{ &dto.LabelPair{Name: proto.String("status"), Value: proto.String("404")}, &dto.LabelPair{Name: proto.String("method"), Value: proto.String("get")}, } sort.Sort(prometheus.LabelPairSorter(labelPairs)) fmt.Println(labelPairs) // Output: // [name:"method" value:"get" name:"status" value:"404" ] } func ExampleRegister() { // Imagine you have a worker pool and want to count the tasks completed. taskCounter := prometheus.NewCounter(prometheus.CounterOpts{ Subsystem: "worker_pool", Name: "completed_tasks_total", Help: "Total number of tasks completed.", }) // This will register fine. if err := prometheus.Register(taskCounter); err != nil { fmt.Println(err) } else { fmt.Println("taskCounter registered.") } // Don't forget to tell the HTTP server about the Prometheus handler. // (In a real program, you still need to start the HTTP server...) http.Handle("/metrics", prometheus.Handler()) // Now you can start workers and give every one of them a pointer to // taskCounter and let it increment it whenever it completes a task. taskCounter.Inc() // This has to happen somewhere in the worker code. // But wait, you want to see how individual workers perform. So you need // a vector of counters, with one element for each worker. taskCounterVec := prometheus.NewCounterVec( prometheus.CounterOpts{ Subsystem: "worker_pool", Name: "completed_tasks_total", Help: "Total number of tasks completed.", }, []string{"worker_id"}, ) // Registering will fail because we already have a metric of that name. if err := prometheus.Register(taskCounterVec); err != nil { fmt.Println("taskCounterVec not registered:", err) } else { fmt.Println("taskCounterVec registered.") } // To fix, first unregister the old taskCounter. if prometheus.Unregister(taskCounter) { fmt.Println("taskCounter unregistered.") } // Try registering taskCounterVec again. if err := prometheus.Register(taskCounterVec); err != nil { fmt.Println("taskCounterVec not registered:", err) } else { fmt.Println("taskCounterVec registered.") } // Bummer! Still doesn't work. // Prometheus will not allow you to ever export metrics with // inconsistent help strings or label names. After unregistering, the // unregistered metrics will cease to show up in the /metrics HTTP // response, but the registry still remembers that those metrics had // been exported before. For this example, we will now choose a // different name. (In a real program, you would obviously not export // the obsolete metric in the first place.) taskCounterVec = prometheus.NewCounterVec( prometheus.CounterOpts{ Subsystem: "worker_pool", Name: "completed_tasks_by_id", Help: "Total number of tasks completed.", }, []string{"worker_id"}, ) if err := prometheus.Register(taskCounterVec); err != nil { fmt.Println("taskCounterVec not registered:", err) } else { fmt.Println("taskCounterVec registered.") } // Finally it worked! // The workers have to tell taskCounterVec their id to increment the // right element in the metric vector. taskCounterVec.WithLabelValues("42").Inc() // Code from worker 42. // Each worker could also keep a reference to their own counter element // around. Pick the counter at initialization time of the worker. myCounter := taskCounterVec.WithLabelValues("42") // From worker 42 initialization code. myCounter.Inc() // Somewhere in the code of that worker. // Note that something like WithLabelValues("42", "spurious arg") would // panic (because you have provided too many label values). If you want // to get an error instead, use GetMetricWithLabelValues(...) instead. notMyCounter, err := taskCounterVec.GetMetricWithLabelValues("42", "spurious arg") if err != nil { fmt.Println("Worker initialization failed:", err) } if notMyCounter == nil { fmt.Println("notMyCounter is nil.") } // A different (and somewhat tricky) approach is to use // ConstLabels. ConstLabels are pairs of label names and label values // that never change. You might ask what those labels are good for (and // rightfully so - if they never change, they could as well be part of // the metric name). There are essentially two use-cases: The first is // if labels are constant throughout the lifetime of a binary execution, // but they vary over time or between different instances of a running // binary. The second is what we have here: Each worker creates and // registers an own Counter instance where the only difference is in the // value of the ConstLabels. Those Counters can all be registered // because the different ConstLabel values guarantee that each worker // will increment a different Counter metric. counterOpts := prometheus.CounterOpts{ Subsystem: "worker_pool", Name: "completed_tasks", Help: "Total number of tasks completed.", ConstLabels: prometheus.Labels{"worker_id": "42"}, } taskCounterForWorker42 := prometheus.NewCounter(counterOpts) if err := prometheus.Register(taskCounterForWorker42); err != nil { fmt.Println("taskCounterVForWorker42 not registered:", err) } else { fmt.Println("taskCounterForWorker42 registered.") } // Obviously, in real code, taskCounterForWorker42 would be a member // variable of a worker struct, and the "42" would be retrieved with a // GetId() method or something. The Counter would be created and // registered in the initialization code of the worker. // For the creation of the next Counter, we can recycle // counterOpts. Just change the ConstLabels. counterOpts.ConstLabels = prometheus.Labels{"worker_id": "2001"} taskCounterForWorker2001 := prometheus.NewCounter(counterOpts) if err := prometheus.Register(taskCounterForWorker2001); err != nil { fmt.Println("taskCounterVForWorker2001 not registered:", err) } else { fmt.Println("taskCounterForWorker2001 registered.") } taskCounterForWorker2001.Inc() taskCounterForWorker42.Inc() taskCounterForWorker2001.Inc() // Yet another approach would be to turn the workers themselves into // Collectors and register them. See the Collector example for details. // Output: // taskCounter registered. // taskCounterVec not registered: a previously registered descriptor with the same fully-qualified name as Desc{fqName: "worker_pool_completed_tasks_total", help: "Total number of tasks completed.", constLabels: {}, variableLabels: [worker_id]} has different label names or a different help string // taskCounter unregistered. // taskCounterVec not registered: a previously registered descriptor with the same fully-qualified name as Desc{fqName: "worker_pool_completed_tasks_total", help: "Total number of tasks completed.", constLabels: {}, variableLabels: [worker_id]} has different label names or a different help string // taskCounterVec registered. // Worker initialization failed: inconsistent label cardinality // notMyCounter is nil. // taskCounterForWorker42 registered. // taskCounterForWorker2001 registered. } func ExampleSummary() { temps := prometheus.NewSummary(prometheus.SummaryOpts{ Name: "pond_temperature_celsius", Help: "The temperature of the frog pond.", // Sorry, we can't measure how badly it smells. }) // Simulate some observations. for i := 0; i < 1000; i++ { temps.Observe(30 + math.Floor(120*math.Sin(float64(i)*0.1))/10) } // Just for demonstration, let's check the state of the summary by // (ab)using its Write method (which is usually only used by Prometheus // internally). metric := &dto.Metric{} temps.Write(metric) fmt.Println(proto.MarshalTextString(metric)) // Output: // summary: < // sample_count: 1000 // sample_sum: 29969.50000000001 // quantile: < // quantile: 0.5 // value: 31.1 // > // quantile: < // quantile: 0.9 // value: 41.3 // > // quantile: < // quantile: 0.99 // value: 41.9 // > // > } func ExampleSummaryVec() { temps := prometheus.NewSummaryVec( prometheus.SummaryOpts{ Name: "pond_temperature_celsius", Help: "The temperature of the frog pond.", // Sorry, we can't measure how badly it smells. }, []string{"species"}, ) // Simulate some observations. for i := 0; i < 1000; i++ { temps.WithLabelValues("litoria-caerulea").Observe(30 + math.Floor(120*math.Sin(float64(i)*0.1))/10) temps.WithLabelValues("lithobates-catesbeianus").Observe(32 + math.Floor(100*math.Cos(float64(i)*0.11))/10) } // Create a Summary without any observations. temps.WithLabelValues("leiopelma-hochstetteri") // Just for demonstration, let's check the state of the summary vector // by (ab)using its Collect method and the Write method of its elements // (which is usually only used by Prometheus internally - code like the // following will never appear in your own code). metricChan := make(chan prometheus.Metric) go func() { defer close(metricChan) temps.Collect(metricChan) }() metricStrings := []string{} for metric := range metricChan { dtoMetric := &dto.Metric{} metric.Write(dtoMetric) metricStrings = append(metricStrings, proto.MarshalTextString(dtoMetric)) } sort.Strings(metricStrings) // For reproducible print order. fmt.Println(metricStrings) // Output: // [label: < // name: "species" // value: "leiopelma-hochstetteri" // > // summary: < // sample_count: 0 // sample_sum: 0 // quantile: < // quantile: 0.5 // value: nan // > // quantile: < // quantile: 0.9 // value: nan // > // quantile: < // quantile: 0.99 // value: nan // > // > // label: < // name: "species" // value: "lithobates-catesbeianus" // > // summary: < // sample_count: 1000 // sample_sum: 31956.100000000017 // quantile: < // quantile: 0.5 // value: 32.4 // > // quantile: < // quantile: 0.9 // value: 41.4 // > // quantile: < // quantile: 0.99 // value: 41.9 // > // > // label: < // name: "species" // value: "litoria-caerulea" // > // summary: < // sample_count: 1000 // sample_sum: 29969.50000000001 // quantile: < // quantile: 0.5 // value: 31.1 // > // quantile: < // quantile: 0.9 // value: 41.3 // > // quantile: < // quantile: 0.99 // value: 41.9 // > // > // ] } func ExampleConstSummary() { desc := prometheus.NewDesc( "http_request_duration_seconds", "A summary of the HTTP request durations.", []string{"code", "method"}, prometheus.Labels{"owner": "example"}, ) // Create a constant summary from values we got from a 3rd party telemetry system. s := prometheus.MustNewConstSummary( desc, 4711, 403.34, map[float64]float64{0.5: 42.3, 0.9: 323.3}, "200", "get", ) // Just for demonstration, let's check the state of the summary by // (ab)using its Write method (which is usually only used by Prometheus // internally). metric := &dto.Metric{} s.Write(metric) fmt.Println(proto.MarshalTextString(metric)) // Output: // label: < // name: "code" // value: "200" // > // label: < // name: "method" // value: "get" // > // label: < // name: "owner" // value: "example" // > // summary: < // sample_count: 4711 // sample_sum: 403.34 // quantile: < // quantile: 0.5 // value: 42.3 // > // quantile: < // quantile: 0.9 // value: 323.3 // > // > } func ExampleHistogram() { temps := prometheus.NewHistogram(prometheus.HistogramOpts{ Name: "pond_temperature_celsius", Help: "The temperature of the frog pond.", // Sorry, we can't measure how badly it smells. Buckets: prometheus.LinearBuckets(20, 5, 5), // 5 buckets, each 5 centigrade wide. }) // Simulate some observations. for i := 0; i < 1000; i++ { temps.Observe(30 + math.Floor(120*math.Sin(float64(i)*0.1))/10) } // Just for demonstration, let's check the state of the histogram by // (ab)using its Write method (which is usually only used by Prometheus // internally). metric := &dto.Metric{} temps.Write(metric) fmt.Println(proto.MarshalTextString(metric)) // Output: // histogram: < // sample_count: 1000 // sample_sum: 29969.50000000001 // bucket: < // cumulative_count: 192 // upper_bound: 20 // > // bucket: < // cumulative_count: 366 // upper_bound: 25 // > // bucket: < // cumulative_count: 501 // upper_bound: 30 // > // bucket: < // cumulative_count: 638 // upper_bound: 35 // > // bucket: < // cumulative_count: 816 // upper_bound: 40 // > // > } func ExampleConstHistogram() { desc := prometheus.NewDesc( "http_request_duration_seconds", "A histogram of the HTTP request durations.", []string{"code", "method"}, prometheus.Labels{"owner": "example"}, ) // Create a constant histogram from values we got from a 3rd party telemetry system. h := prometheus.MustNewConstHistogram( desc, 4711, 403.34, map[float64]uint64{25: 121, 50: 2403, 100: 3221, 200: 4233}, "200", "get", ) // Just for demonstration, let's check the state of the histogram by // (ab)using its Write method (which is usually only used by Prometheus // internally). metric := &dto.Metric{} h.Write(metric) fmt.Println(proto.MarshalTextString(metric)) // Output: // label: < // name: "code" // value: "200" // > // label: < // name: "method" // value: "get" // > // label: < // name: "owner" // value: "example" // > // histogram: < // sample_count: 4711 // sample_sum: 403.34 // bucket: < // cumulative_count: 121 // upper_bound: 25 // > // bucket: < // cumulative_count: 2403 // upper_bound: 50 // > // bucket: < // cumulative_count: 3221 // upper_bound: 100 // > // bucket: < // cumulative_count: 4233 // upper_bound: 200 // > // > } func ExamplePushCollectors() { hostname, _ := os.Hostname() completionTime := prometheus.NewGauge(prometheus.GaugeOpts{ Name: "db_backup_last_completion_time", Help: "The timestamp of the last succesful completion of a DB backup.", }) completionTime.Set(float64(time.Now().Unix())) if err := prometheus.PushCollectors( "db_backup", hostname, "http://pushgateway:9091", completionTime, ); err != nil { fmt.Println("Could not push completion time to Pushgateway:", err) } }