// 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 "github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus" // ClusterManager is an example for a system that might have been built without // Prometheus in mind. It models a central manager of jobs running in a // cluster. To turn it into something that collects Prometheus metrics, we // simply add the two methods required for the Collector interface. // // An additional challenge is that multiple instances of the ClusterManager are // run within the same binary, each in charge of a different zone. We need to // make use of ConstLabels to be able to register each ClusterManager instance // with Prometheus. type ClusterManager struct { Zone string OOMCountDesc *prometheus.Desc RAMUsageDesc *prometheus.Desc // ... many more fields } // ReallyExpensiveAssessmentOfTheSystemState is a mock for the data gathering a // real cluster manager would have to do. Since it may actually be really // expensive, it must only be called once per collection. This implementation, // obviously, only returns some made-up data. func (c *ClusterManager) ReallyExpensiveAssessmentOfTheSystemState() ( oomCountByHost map[string]int, ramUsageByHost map[string]float64, ) { // Just example fake data. oomCountByHost = map[string]int{ "foo.example.org": 42, "bar.example.org": 2001, } ramUsageByHost = map[string]float64{ "foo.example.org": 6.023e23, "bar.example.org": 3.14, } return } // Describe simply sends the two Descs in the struct to the channel. func (c *ClusterManager) Describe(ch chan<- *prometheus.Desc) { ch <- c.OOMCountDesc ch <- c.RAMUsageDesc } // Collect first triggers the ReallyExpensiveAssessmentOfTheSystemState. Then it // creates constant metrics for each host on the fly based on the returned data. // // Note that Collect could be called concurrently, so we depend on // ReallyExpensiveAssessmentOfTheSystemState to be concurrency-safe. func (c *ClusterManager) Collect(ch chan<- prometheus.Metric) { oomCountByHost, ramUsageByHost := c.ReallyExpensiveAssessmentOfTheSystemState() for host, oomCount := range oomCountByHost { ch <- prometheus.MustNewConstMetric( c.OOMCountDesc, prometheus.CounterValue, float64(oomCount), host, ) } for host, ramUsage := range ramUsageByHost { ch <- prometheus.MustNewConstMetric( c.RAMUsageDesc, prometheus.GaugeValue, ramUsage, host, ) } } // NewClusterManager creates the two Descs OOMCountDesc and RAMUsageDesc. Note // that the zone is set as a ConstLabel. (It's different in each instance of the // ClusterManager, but constant over the lifetime of an instance.) Then there is // a variable label "host", since we want to partition the collected metrics by // host. Since all Descs created in this way are consistent across instances, // with a guaranteed distinction by the "zone" label, we can register different // ClusterManager instances with the same registry. func NewClusterManager(zone string) *ClusterManager { return &ClusterManager{ Zone: zone, OOMCountDesc: prometheus.NewDesc( "clustermanager_oom_crashes_total", "Number of OOM crashes.", []string{"host"}, prometheus.Labels{"zone": zone}, ), RAMUsageDesc: prometheus.NewDesc( "clustermanager_ram_usage_bytes", "RAM usage as reported to the cluster manager.", []string{"host"}, prometheus.Labels{"zone": zone}, ), } } func ExampleCollector() { workerDB := NewClusterManager("db") workerCA := NewClusterManager("ca") // Since we are dealing with custom Collector implementations, it might // be a good idea to try it out with a pedantic registry. reg := prometheus.NewPedanticRegistry() reg.MustRegister(workerDB) reg.MustRegister(workerCA) }