GoProMetrics

The use case for GoProMetrics is to provide an aggregator and metrics cache for ephemeral processes. Such a scripting languages like PHP. GoProMetrics is simple, lightweight, fast and provide easy to use API over HTTP.

PHP Client: https://github.com/jtl-software/goprometrics-client

Features

• Support for Counter metrics
• Support for Gauge metrics
• Support for Histogram metrics
• Support form Summary metrics
• Each metric can be described using Namespace, Labels and Help Text
• Provide /metrics endpoint for scrapping

Install - Build it

go build

// run it
./goprometrics

Run it

./goprometrics -h
Usage of ./goprometrics:
  -host string
        Api Host (default "127.0.0.1")
  -hostm string
        Host to expose metrics (default "127.0.0.1")
  -port string
        Api Port (default "9111")
  -portm string
        Port to expose metrics (default "9112")

Install - Run with Docker

docker pull jtlsoftware/goprometrics
docker run -it -p 9111:9111 -p 9112:9112 jtlsoftware/goprometrics

Install - Run with Docker-Compose

docker-compose up -d

Will start GoProMetrics listen in :9111 (api) and :9112 (for expose metrics). There is also a prometheus up and running on :9090.

Need some logs? docker-compose logs -f goprometrics

Examples

Push and increment a counter

curl -XPUT '127.0.0.1:9111/count/foobar/drinks' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
--data-urlencode 'labels=alcoholic:beer'

Expose Metrics

curl '127.0.0.1:9112/metrics'

See example directory for Example requests