ginprom

Gin Prometheus metrics exporter inspired by github.com/zsais/go-gin-prometheus

Install

Simply run: go get -u github.com/Depado/ginprom

Differences with go-gin-prometheus

No support for Prometheus' Push Gateway
Options on constructor
Adds a path label to get the matched route
Ability to ignore routes

Usage

package main

import (
	"github.com/Depado/ginprom"
	"github.com/gin-gonic/gin"
)

func main() {
	r := gin.Default()
	p := ginprom.New(
		ginprom.Engine(r),
		ginprom.Subsystem("gin"),
		ginprom.Path("/metrics"),
	)
	r.Use(p.Instrument())

	r.GET("/hello/:id", func(c *gin.Context) {})
	r.GET("/world/:id", func(c *gin.Context) {})
	r.Run("127.0.0.1:8080")
}

Options

Path

Override the default path (/metrics) on which the metrics can be accessed:

r := gin.New()
p := ginprom.New(
	ginprom.Engine(r),
	ginprom.Path("/custom/metrics"),
)
r.Use(p.Instrument())

Namespace

Override the default namespace (gin):

r := gin.New()
p := ginprom.New(
	ginprom.Engine(r),
	ginprom.Namespace("custom_ns"),
)
r.Use(p.Instrument())

Subsystem

Override the default (gonic) subsystem:

r := gin.New()
p := ginprom.New(
	ginprom.Engine(r),
	ginprom.Subsystem("your_subsystem"),
)
r.Use(p.Instrument())

Engine

The preferred way to pass the router to ginprom:

r := gin.New()
p := ginprom.New(
	ginprom.Engine(r),
)
r.Use(p.Instrument())

The alternative being to call the Use method after initialization:

p := ginprom.New()
// ...
r := gin.New()
p.Use(r)
r.Use(p.Instrument())

Ignore

Ignore allows to completely ignore some routes. Even though you can apply the middleware to the only groups you're interested in, it is sometimes useful to have routes not instrumented.

r := gin.New()
p := ginprom.New(
	ginprom.Engine(r),
	ginprom.Ignore("/api/no/no/no", "/api/super/secret/route")
)
r.Use(p.Instrument())

Note that most of the time this can be solved by gin groups:

r := gin.New()
p := ginprom.New(ginprom.Engine(r))

// Add the routes that do not need instrumentation
g := r.Group("/api/")
g.Use(p.Instrument())
{
	// Instrumented routes
}

Token

Specify a secret token which Prometheus will use to access the endpoint. If the token is invalid, the endpoint will return an error.

r := gin.New()
p := ginprom.New(
	ginprom.Engine(r),
	ginprom.Token("supersecrettoken")
)
r.Use(p.Instrument())

Troubleshooting

The instrumentation doesn't seem to work

Make sure you have set the gin.Engine in the ginprom middleware, either when initializing it using ginprom.New(ginprom.Engine(r)) or using the Use function after the initialization like this :

p := ginprom.New(
	ginprom.Namespace("gin"),
	ginprom.Subsystem("gonic"),
	ginprom.Path("/metrics"),
)
p.Use(r)
r.Use(p.Instrument())

By design, if the middleware was to panic, it would do so when a route is called. That's why it just silently fails when no engine has been set.

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