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title: Exporters and integrations
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# Exporters and integrations

There are a number of libraries and servers which help in exporting existing
metrics from third-party systems as Prometheus metrics. This is useful for
cases where it is not feasible to instrument a given system with Prometheus
metrics directly (for example, HAProxy or Linux system stats).

## Third-party exporters

Some of these exporters are maintained as part of the official [Prometheus GitHub organization](https://github.com/prometheus),
those are marked as *official*, others are externally contributed and maintained.

We encourage the creation of more exporters but cannot vet all of them for
[best practices](/docs/instrumenting/writing_exporters/).
Commonly, those exporters are hosted outside of the Prometheus GitHub
organization.

The [exporter default
port](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/wiki/Default-port-allocations)
wiki page has become another catalog of exporters, and may include exporters
not listed here due to overlapping functionality or still being in development.

The [JMX exporter](https://github.com/prometheus/jmx_exporter) can export from a
wide variety of JVM-based applications, for example [Kafka](http://kafka.apache.org/) and
[Cassandra](http://cassandra.apache.org/).

### Databases

   * [Aerospike exporter](https://github.com/aerospike/aerospike-prometheus-exporter)
   * [AWS RDS exporter](https://github.com/qonto/prometheus-rds-exporter)
   * [ClickHouse exporter](https://github.com/f1yegor/clickhouse_exporter)
   * [Consul exporter](https://github.com/prometheus/consul_exporter) (**official**)
   * [Couchbase exporter](https://github.com/couchbase/couchbase-exporter)
   * [CouchDB exporter](https://github.com/gesellix/couchdb-exporter)
   * [Druid Exporter](https://github.com/opstree/druid-exporter)
   * [Elasticsearch exporter](https://github.com/prometheus-community/elasticsearch_exporter)
   * [EventStore exporter](https://github.com/marcinbudny/eventstore_exporter)
   * [IoTDB exporter](https://github.com/fagnercarvalho/prometheus-iotdb-exporter)
   * [KDB+ exporter](https://github.com/KxSystems/prometheus-kdb-exporter)
   * [Memcached exporter](https://github.com/prometheus/memcached_exporter) (**official**)
   * [MongoDB exporter](https://github.com/percona/mongodb_exporter)
   * [MongoDB query exporter](https://github.com/raffis/mongodb-query-exporter)
   * [MongoDB Node.js Driver exporter](https://github.com/christiangalsterer/mongodb-driver-prometheus-exporter)
   * [MSSQL server exporter](https://github.com/awaragi/prometheus-mssql-exporter)
   * [MySQL router exporter](https://github.com/rluisr/mysqlrouter_exporter)
   * [MySQL server exporter](https://github.com/prometheus/mysqld_exporter) (**official**)
   * [OpenTSDB Exporter](https://github.com/cloudflare/opentsdb_exporter)
   * [Oracle DB Exporter](https://github.com/iamseth/oracledb_exporter)
   * [PgBouncer exporter](https://github.com/prometheus-community/pgbouncer_exporter)
   * [PostgreSQL exporter](https://github.com/prometheus-community/postgres_exporter)
   * [Presto exporter](https://github.com/yahoojapan/presto_exporter)
   * [ProxySQL exporter](https://github.com/percona/proxysql_exporter)
   * [RavenDB exporter](https://github.com/marcinbudny/ravendb_exporter)
   * [Redis exporter](https://github.com/oliver006/redis_exporter)
   * [RethinkDB exporter](https://github.com/oliver006/rethinkdb_exporter)
   * [SQL exporter](https://github.com/burningalchemist/sql_exporter)
   * [Tarantool metric library](https://github.com/tarantool/metrics)
   * [Twemproxy](https://github.com/stuartnelson3/twemproxy_exporter)

### Hardware related
   * [apcupsd exporter](https://github.com/mdlayher/apcupsd_exporter)
   * [BIG-IP exporter](https://github.com/ExpressenAB/bigip_exporter)
   * [Bosch Sensortec BMP/BME exporter](https://github.com/David-Igou/bsbmp-exporter)
   * [Collins exporter](https://github.com/soundcloud/collins_exporter)
   * [Dell Hardware OMSA exporter](https://github.com/galexrt/dellhw_exporter)
   * [Disk usage exporter](https://github.com/dundee/disk_usage_exporter)
   * [Fortigate exporter](https://github.com/bluecmd/fortigate_exporter)
   * [IBM Z HMC exporter](https://github.com/zhmcclient/zhmc-prometheus-exporter)
   * [IoT Edison exporter](https://github.com/roman-vynar/edison_exporter)
   * [InfiniBand exporter](https://github.com/treydock/infiniband_exporter)
   * [IPMI exporter](https://github.com/soundcloud/ipmi_exporter)
   * [knxd exporter](https://github.com/RichiH/knxd_exporter)
   * [Modbus exporter](https://github.com/RichiH/modbus_exporter)
   * [Netgear Cable Modem Exporter](https://github.com/ickymettle/netgear_cm_exporter)
   * [Netgear Router exporter](https://github.com/DRuggeri/netgear_exporter)
   * [Network UPS Tools (NUT) exporter](https://github.com/DRuggeri/nut_exporter)
   * [Node/system metrics exporter](https://github.com/prometheus/node_exporter) (**official**)
   * [NVIDIA GPU exporter](https://github.com/mindprince/nvidia_gpu_prometheus_exporter)
   * [ProSAFE exporter](https://github.com/dalance/prosafe_exporter)
   * [SmartRAID exporter](https://gitlab.com/calestyo/prometheus-smartraid-exporter)
   * [Waveplus Radon Sensor Exporter](https://github.com/jeremybz/waveplus_exporter)
   * [Weathergoose Climate Monitor Exporter](https://github.com/branttaylor/watchdog-prometheus-exporter)
   * [Windows exporter](https://github.com/prometheus-community/windows_exporter)
   * [Intel® Optane™ Persistent Memory Controller Exporter](https://github.com/intel/ipmctl-exporter)

### Issue trackers and continuous integration

   * [Bamboo exporter](https://github.com/AndreyVMarkelov/bamboo-prometheus-exporter)
   * [Bitbucket exporter](https://github.com/AndreyVMarkelov/prom-bitbucket-exporter)
   * [Confluence exporter](https://github.com/AndreyVMarkelov/prom-confluence-exporter)
   * [Jenkins exporter](https://github.com/lovoo/jenkins_exporter)
   * [JIRA exporter](https://github.com/AndreyVMarkelov/jira-prometheus-exporter)

### Messaging systems
   * [Beanstalkd exporter](https://github.com/messagebird/beanstalkd_exporter)
   * [EMQ exporter](https://github.com/nuvo/emq_exporter)
   * [Gearman exporter](https://github.com/bakins/gearman-exporter)
   * [IBM MQ exporter](https://github.com/ibm-messaging/mq-metric-samples/tree/master/cmd/mq_prometheus)
   * [Kafka exporter](https://github.com/danielqsj/kafka_exporter)
   * [NATS exporter](https://github.com/nats-io/prometheus-nats-exporter)
   * [NSQ exporter](https://github.com/lovoo/nsq_exporter)
   * [Mirth Connect exporter](https://github.com/vynca/mirth_exporter)
   * [MQTT blackbox exporter](https://github.com/inovex/mqtt_blackbox_exporter)
   * [MQTT2Prometheus](https://github.com/hikhvar/mqtt2prometheus)
   * [RabbitMQ exporter](https://github.com/kbudde/rabbitmq_exporter)
   * [RabbitMQ Management Plugin exporter](https://github.com/deadtrickster/prometheus_rabbitmq_exporter)
   * [RocketMQ exporter](https://github.com/apache/rocketmq-exporter)
   * [Solace exporter](https://github.com/solacecommunity/solace-prometheus-exporter)

### Storage
   * [Ceph exporter](https://github.com/digitalocean/ceph_exporter)
   * [Ceph RADOSGW exporter](https://github.com/blemmenes/radosgw_usage_exporter)
   * [Gluster exporter](https://github.com/ofesseler/gluster_exporter)
   * [GPFS exporter](https://github.com/treydock/gpfs_exporter)
   * [Hadoop HDFS FSImage exporter](https://github.com/marcelmay/hadoop-hdfs-fsimage-exporter)
   * [HPE CSI info metrics provider](https://scod.hpedev.io/csi_driver/metrics.html)
   * [HPE storage array exporter](https://hpe-storage.github.io/array-exporter/)
   * [Lustre exporter](https://github.com/HewlettPackard/lustre_exporter)
   * [NetApp E-Series exporter](https://github.com/treydock/eseries_exporter)
   * [Pure Storage exporter](https://github.com/PureStorage-OpenConnect/pure-exporter)
   * [ScaleIO exporter](https://github.com/syepes/sio2prom)
   * [Tivoli Storage Manager/IBM Spectrum Protect exporter](https://github.com/treydock/tsm_exporter)

### HTTP
   * [Apache exporter](https://github.com/Lusitaniae/apache_exporter)
   * [HAProxy exporter](https://github.com/prometheus/haproxy_exporter) (**official**)
   * [Nginx metric library](https://github.com/knyar/nginx-lua-prometheus)
   * [Nginx VTS exporter](https://github.com/sysulq/nginx-vts-exporter)
   * [Passenger exporter](https://github.com/stuartnelson3/passenger_exporter)
   * [Squid exporter](https://github.com/boynux/squid-exporter)
   * [Tinyproxy exporter](https://github.com/gmm42/tinyproxy_exporter)
   * [Varnish exporter](https://github.com/jonnenauha/prometheus_varnish_exporter)
   * [WebDriver exporter](https://github.com/mattbostock/webdriver_exporter)

### APIs
   * [AWS ECS exporter](https://github.com/slok/ecs-exporter)
   * [AWS Health exporter](https://github.com/Jimdo/aws-health-exporter)
   * [AWS SQS exporter](https://github.com/jmal98/sqs_exporter)
   * [Azure Health exporter](https://github.com/FXinnovation/azure-health-exporter)
   * [BigBlueButton](https://github.com/greenstatic/bigbluebutton-exporter)
   * [Cloudflare exporter](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cloudflare_exporter)
   * [Cryptowat exporter](https://github.com/nbarrientos/cryptowat_exporter)
   * [DigitalOcean exporter](https://github.com/metalmatze/digitalocean_exporter)
   * [Docker Cloud exporter](https://github.com/infinityworks/docker-cloud-exporter)
   * [Docker Hub exporter](https://github.com/infinityworks/docker-hub-exporter)
   * [Fastly exporter](https://github.com/peterbourgon/fastly-exporter)
   * [GitHub exporter](https://github.com/githubexporter/github-exporter)
   * [Gmail exporter](https://github.com/jamesread/prometheus-gmail-exporter/)
   * [GraphQL exporter](https://github.com/ricardbejarano/graphql_exporter)
   * [InstaClustr exporter](https://github.com/fcgravalos/instaclustr_exporter)
   * [Mozilla Observatory exporter](https://github.com/Jimdo/observatory-exporter)
   * [OpenWeatherMap exporter](https://github.com/RichiH/openweathermap_exporter)
   * [Pagespeed exporter](https://github.com/foomo/pagespeed_exporter)
   * [Rancher exporter](https://github.com/infinityworks/prometheus-rancher-exporter)
   * [Speedtest exporter](https://github.com/nlamirault/speedtest_exporter)
   * [Tankerkönig API Exporter](https://github.com/lukasmalkmus/tankerkoenig_exporter)

### Logging
   * [Fluentd exporter](https://github.com/V3ckt0r/fluentd_exporter)
   * [Google's mtail log data extractor](https://github.com/google/mtail)
   * [Grok exporter](https://github.com/fstab/grok_exporter)

### FinOps
   * [AWS Cost Exporter](https://github.com/electrolux-oss/aws-cost-exporter)
   * [Azure Cost Exporter](https://github.com/electrolux-oss/azure-cost-exporter)
   * [Kubernetes Cost Exporter](https://github.com/electrolux-oss/kubernetes-cost-exporter)

### Other monitoring systems
   * [Akamai Cloudmonitor exporter](https://github.com/ExpressenAB/cloudmonitor_exporter)
   * [Alibaba Cloudmonitor exporter](https://github.com/aylei/aliyun-exporter)
   * [AWS CloudWatch exporter](https://github.com/prometheus/cloudwatch_exporter) (**official**)
   * [Azure Monitor exporter](https://github.com/RobustPerception/azure_metrics_exporter)
   * [Cloud Foundry Firehose exporter](https://github.com/cloudfoundry-community/firehose_exporter)
   * [Collectd exporter](https://github.com/prometheus/collectd_exporter) (**official**)
   * [Google Stackdriver exporter](https://github.com/frodenas/stackdriver_exporter)
   * [Graphite exporter](https://github.com/prometheus/graphite_exporter) (**official**)
   * [Heka dashboard exporter](https://github.com/docker-infra/heka_exporter)
   * [Heka exporter](https://github.com/imgix/heka_exporter)
   * [Huawei Cloudeye exporter](https://github.com/huaweicloud/cloudeye-exporter)
   * [InfluxDB exporter](https://github.com/prometheus/influxdb_exporter) (**official**)
   * [ITM exporter](https://github.com/rafal-szypulka/itm_exporter)
   * [Java GC exporter](https://github.com/loyispa/jgc_exporter)
   * [JavaMelody exporter](https://github.com/fschlag/javamelody-prometheus-exporter)
   * [JMX exporter](https://github.com/prometheus/jmx_exporter) (**official**)
   * [Munin exporter](https://github.com/pvdh/munin_exporter)
   * [Nagios / Naemon exporter](https://github.com/Griesbacher/Iapetos)
   * [Neptune Apex exporter](https://github.com/dl-romero/neptune_exporter)
   * [New Relic exporter](https://github.com/mrf/newrelic_exporter)
   * [NRPE exporter](https://github.com/robustperception/nrpe_exporter)
   * [Osquery exporter](https://github.com/zwopir/osquery_exporter)
   * [OTC CloudEye exporter](https://github.com/tiagoReichert/otc-cloudeye-prometheus-exporter)
   * [Pingdom exporter](https://github.com/giantswarm/prometheus-pingdom-exporter)
   * [Promitor (Azure Monitor)](https://promitor.io)
   * [scollector exporter](https://github.com/tgulacsi/prometheus_scollector)
   * [Sensu exporter](https://github.com/reachlin/sensu_exporter)
   * [site24x7_exporter](https://github.com/svenstaro/site24x7_exporter)
   * [SNMP exporter](https://github.com/prometheus/snmp_exporter) (**official**)
   * [StatsD exporter](https://github.com/prometheus/statsd_exporter) (**official**)
   * [TencentCloud monitor exporter](https://github.com/tencentyun/tencentcloud-exporter)
   * [ThousandEyes exporter](https://github.com/sapcc/1000eyes_exporter)
   * [StatusPage exporter](https://github.com/sergeyshevch/statuspage-exporter)

### Miscellaneous

   * [ACT Fibernet Exporter](https://git.captnemo.in/nemo/prometheus-act-exporter)
   * [BIND exporter](https://github.com/prometheus-community/bind_exporter)
   * [BIND query exporter](https://github.com/DRuggeri/bind_query_exporter)
   * [Bitcoind exporter](https://github.com/LePetitBloc/bitcoind-exporter)
   * [Blackbox exporter](https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter) (**official**)
   * [Bungeecord exporter](https://github.com/weihao/bungeecord-prometheus-exporter)
   * [BOSH exporter](https://github.com/cloudfoundry-community/bosh_exporter)
   * [cAdvisor](https://github.com/google/cadvisor)
   * [Cachet exporter](https://github.com/ContaAzul/cachet_exporter)
   * [ccache exporter](https://github.com/virtualtam/ccache_exporter)
   * [c-lightning exporter](https://github.com/lightningd/plugins/tree/master/prometheus)
   * [DHCPD leases exporter](https://github.com/DRuggeri/dhcpd_leases_exporter)
   * [Dovecot exporter](https://github.com/kumina/dovecot_exporter)
   * [Dnsmasq exporter](https://github.com/google/dnsmasq_exporter)
   * [eBPF exporter](https://github.com/cloudflare/ebpf_exporter)
   * [Ethereum Client exporter](https://github.com/31z4/ethereum-prometheus-exporter)
   * [File statistics exporter](https://github.com/michael-doubez/filestat_exporter)
   * [JFrog Artifactory Exporter](https://github.com/peimanja/artifactory_exporter)
   * [Hostapd Exporter](https://github.com/Fundacio-i2CAT/hostapd_prometheus_exporter)
   * [IBM Security Verify Access / Security Access Manager Exporter](https://gitlab.com/zeblawson/isva-prometheus-exporter)
   * [IPsec exporter](https://github.com/torilabs/ipsec-prometheus-exporter)
   * [IRCd exporter](https://github.com/dgl/ircd_exporter)
   * [Linux HA ClusterLabs exporter](https://github.com/ClusterLabs/ha_cluster_exporter)
   * [JMeter plugin](https://github.com/johrstrom/jmeter-prometheus-plugin)
   * [JSON exporter](https://github.com/prometheus-community/json_exporter)
   * [Kannel exporter](https://github.com/apostvav/kannel_exporter)
   * [Kemp LoadBalancer exporter](https://github.com/giantswarm/prometheus-kemp-exporter)
   * [Kibana Exporter](https://github.com/pjhampton/kibana-prometheus-exporter)
   * [kube-state-metrics](https://github.com/kubernetes/kube-state-metrics)
   * [Locust Exporter](https://github.com/ContainerSolutions/locust_exporter)
   * [Meteor JS web framework exporter](https://atmospherejs.com/sevki/prometheus-exporter)
   * [Minecraft exporter module](https://github.com/Baughn/PrometheusIntegration)
   * [Minecraft exporter](https://github.com/dirien/minecraft-prometheus-exporter)
   * [Nomad exporter](https://gitlab.com/yakshaving.art/nomad-exporter)
   * [nftables exporter](https://github.com/Intrinsec/nftables_exporter)
   * [OpenStack exporter](https://github.com/openstack-exporter/openstack-exporter)
   * [OpenStack blackbox exporter](https://github.com/infraly/openstack_client_exporter)
   * [oVirt exporter](https://github.com/czerwonk/ovirt_exporter)
   * [Pact Broker exporter](https://github.com/ContainerSolutions/pactbroker_exporter)
   * [PHP-FPM exporter](https://github.com/bakins/php-fpm-exporter)
   * [PowerDNS exporter](https://github.com/ledgr/powerdns_exporter)
   * [Podman exporter](https://github.com/containers/prometheus-podman-exporter)
   * [Prefect2 exporter](https://github.com/pathfinder177/prefect2-prometheus-exporter)
   * [Process exporter](https://github.com/ncabatoff/process-exporter)
   * [rTorrent exporter](https://github.com/mdlayher/rtorrent_exporter)
   * [Rundeck exporter](https://github.com/phsmith/rundeck_exporter)
   * [SABnzbd exporter](https://github.com/msroest/sabnzbd_exporter)
   * [SAML exporter](https://github.com/DoodleScheduling/saml-exporter)
   * [Script exporter](https://github.com/adhocteam/script_exporter)
   * [Shield exporter](https://github.com/cloudfoundry-community/shield_exporter)
   * [Smokeping prober](https://github.com/SuperQ/smokeping_prober)
   * [SMTP/Maildir MDA blackbox prober](https://github.com/cherti/mailexporter)
   * [SoftEther exporter](https://github.com/dalance/softether_exporter)
   * [SSH exporter](https://github.com/treydock/ssh_exporter)
   * [Teamspeak3 exporter](https://github.com/hikhvar/ts3exporter)
   * [Transmission exporter](https://github.com/metalmatze/transmission-exporter)
   * [Unbound exporter](https://github.com/kumina/unbound_exporter)
   * [WireGuard exporter](https://github.com/MindFlavor/prometheus_wireguard_exporter)
   * [Xen exporter](https://github.com/lovoo/xenstats_exporter)

When implementing a new Prometheus exporter, please follow the
[guidelines on writing exporters](/docs/instrumenting/writing_exporters)
Please also consider consulting the [development mailing
list](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/prometheus-developers).  We are
happy to give advice on how to make your exporter as useful and consistent as
possible.

## Software exposing Prometheus metrics

Some third-party software exposes metrics in the Prometheus format, so no
separate exporters are needed:

   * [Ansible Automation Platform Automation Controller (AWX)](https://docs.ansible.com/automation-controller/latest/html/administration/metrics.html)
   * [App Connect Enterprise](https://github.com/ot4i/ace-docker)
   * [Ballerina](https://ballerina.io/)
   * [BFE](https://github.com/baidu/bfe)
   * [Caddy](https://caddyserver.com/docs/metrics) (**direct**)
   * [Ceph](https://docs.ceph.com/en/latest/mgr/prometheus/)
   * [CockroachDB](https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/monitoring-and-alerting.html#prometheus-endpoint)
   * [Collectd](https://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Plugin:Write_Prometheus)
   * [Concourse](https://concourse-ci.org/)
   * [CRG Roller Derby Scoreboard](https://github.com/rollerderby/scoreboard) (**direct**)
   * [Diffusion](https://docs.pushtechnology.com/docs/latest/manual/html/administratorguide/systemmanagement/r_statistics.html)
   * [Docker Daemon](https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/dockerd/#daemon-metrics)
   * [Doorman](https://github.com/youtube/doorman) (**direct**)
   * [Dovecot](https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/stats/openmetrics/)
   * [Envoy](https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/latest/operations/admin.html#get--stats?format=prometheus)
   * [Etcd](https://github.com/coreos/etcd) (**direct**)
   * [Flink](https://github.com/apache/flink)
   * [FreeBSD Kernel](https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=prometheus_sysctl_exporter&apropos=0&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+12-current&arch=default&format=html)
   * [GitLab](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/administration/monitoring/prometheus/gitlab_metrics.html)
   * [Grafana](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/administration/view-server/internal-metrics/)
   * [JavaMelody](https://github.com/javamelody/javamelody/wiki/UserGuideAdvanced#exposing-metrics-to-prometheus)
   * [Kong](https://github.com/Kong/kong-plugin-prometheus)
   * [Kubernetes](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes) (**direct**)
   * [LavinMQ](https://lavinmq.com/)
   * [Linkerd](https://github.com/BuoyantIO/linkerd)
   * [mgmt](https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/blob/master/docs/prometheus.md)
   * [MidoNet](https://github.com/midonet/midonet)
   * [midonet-kubernetes](https://github.com/midonet/midonet-kubernetes) (**direct**)
   * [MinIO](https://docs.minio.io/docs/how-to-monitor-minio-using-prometheus.html)
   * [PATROL with Monitoring Studio X](https://www.sentrysoftware.com/library/swsyx/prometheus/exposing-patrol-parameters-in-prometheus.html)
   * [Netdata](https://github.com/firehol/netdata)
   * [OpenZiti](https://openziti.github.io)
   * [Pomerium](https://pomerium.com/reference/#metrics-address)
   * [Pretix](https://pretix.eu/)
   * [Quobyte](https://www.quobyte.com/) (**direct**)
   * [RabbitMQ](https://rabbitmq.com/prometheus.html)
   * [RobustIRC](http://robustirc.net/)
   * [ScyllaDB](http://github.com/scylladb/scylla)
   * [Skipper](https://github.com/zalando/skipper)
   * [SkyDNS](https://github.com/skynetservices/skydns) (**direct**)
   * [Telegraf](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/outputs/prometheus_client)
   * [Traefik](https://github.com/containous/traefik)
   * [Vector](https://vector.dev)
   * [VerneMQ](https://github.com/vernemq/vernemq)
   * [Flux](https://github.com/fluxcd/flux2)
   * [Xandikos](https://www.xandikos.org/) (**direct**)
   * [Zipkin](https://github.com/openzipkin/zipkin/tree/master/zipkin-server#metrics)

The software marked *direct* is also directly instrumented with a Prometheus client library.

## Other third-party utilities

This section lists libraries and other utilities that help you instrument code
in a certain language. They are not Prometheus client libraries themselves but
make use of one of the normal Prometheus client libraries under the hood. As
for all independently maintained software, we cannot vet all of them for best
practices.

   * Clojure: [iapetos](https://github.com/clj-commons/iapetos)
   * Go: [go-metrics instrumentation library](https://github.com/armon/go-metrics)
   * Go: [gokit](https://github.com/peterbourgon/gokit)
   * Go: [prombolt](https://github.com/mdlayher/prombolt)
   * Java/JVM: [EclipseLink metrics collector](https://github.com/VitaNuova/eclipselinkexporter)
   * Java/JVM: [Hystrix metrics publisher](https://github.com/ahus1/prometheus-hystrix)
   * Java/JVM: [Jersey metrics collector](https://github.com/VitaNuova/jerseyexporter)
   * Java/JVM: [Micrometer Prometheus Registry](https://micrometer.io/docs/registry/prometheus)
   * Python-Django: [django-prometheus](https://github.com/korfuri/django-prometheus)
   * Node.js: [swagger-stats](https://github.com/slanatech/swagger-stats)

title  Exporters and integrations sort rank  4        Exporters and integrations  There are a number of libraries and servers which help in exporting existing metrics from third party systems as Prometheus metrics  This is useful for cases where it is not feasible to instrument a given system with Prometheus metrics directly  for example  HAProxy or Linux system stats       Third party exporters  Some of these exporters are maintained as part of the official  Prometheus GitHub organization  https   github com prometheus   those are marked as  official   others are externally contributed and maintained   We encourage the creation of more exporters but cannot vet all of them for  best practices   docs instrumenting writing exporters    Commonly  those exporters are hosted outside of the Prometheus GitHub organization   The  exporter default port  https   github com prometheus prometheus wiki Default port allocations  wiki page has become another catalog of exporters  and may include exporters not listed here due to overlapping functionality or still being in development   The  JMX exporter  https   github com prometheus jmx exporter  can export from a wide variety of JVM based applications  for example  Kafka  http   kafka apache org   and  Cassandra  http   cassandra apache org         Databases        Aerospike exporter  https   github com aerospike aerospike prometheus exporter        AWS RDS exporter  https   github com qonto prometheus rds exporter        ClickHouse exporter  https   github com f1yegor clickhouse exporter        Consul exporter  https   github com prometheus consul exporter     official          Couchbase exporter  https   github com couchbase couchbase exporter        CouchDB exporter  https   github com gesellix couchdb exporter        Druid Exporter  https   github com opstree druid exporter        Elasticsearch exporter  https   github com prometheus community elasticsearch exporter        EventStore exporter  https   github com 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prometheus sortrank 2 Writing client libraries This document covers what functionality and API Prometheus client libraries should offer with the aim of consistency across libraries making the easy use cases easy and avoiding offering functionality that may lead users down the title Writing client libraries

Answer:
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title: Writing client libraries
sort_rank: 2
---

# Writing client libraries

This document covers what functionality and API Prometheus client libraries
should offer, with the aim of consistency across libraries, making the easy use
cases easy and avoiding offering functionality that may lead users down the
wrong path.

There are [10 languages already supported](/docs/instrumenting/clientlibs) at
the time of writing, so we’ve gotten a good sense by now of how to write a
client. These guidelines aim to help authors of new client libraries produce
good libraries.

## Conventions

MUST/MUST NOT/SHOULD/SHOULD NOT/MAY have the meanings given in
[https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt](https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt)

In addition ENCOURAGED means that a feature is desirable for a library to have,
but it’s okay if it’s not present. In other words, a nice to have.

Things to keep in mind:

* Take advantage of each language’s features.

* The common use cases should be easy.

* The correct way to do something should be the easy way.

* More complex use cases should be possible.

The common use cases are (in order):

* Counters without labels spread liberally around libraries/applications.

* Timing functions/blocks of code in Summaries/Histograms.

* Gauges to track current states of things (and their limits).

* Monitoring of batch jobs.

## Overall structure

Clients MUST be written to be callback based internally. Clients SHOULD
generally follow the structure described here.

The key class is the Collector. This has a method (typically called ‘collect’)
that returns zero or more metrics and their samples. Collectors get registered
with a CollectorRegistry. Data is exposed by passing a CollectorRegistry to a
class/method/function "bridge", which returns the metrics in a format
Prometheus supports. Every time the CollectorRegistry is scraped it must
callback to each of the Collectors’ collect method.

The interface most users interact with are the Counter, Gauge, Summary, and
Histogram Collectors. These represent a single metric, and should cover the
vast majority of use cases where a user is instrumenting their own code.

More advanced uses cases (such as proxying from another
monitoring/instrumentation system) require writing a custom Collector. Someone
may also want to write a "bridge" that takes a CollectorRegistry and produces
data in a format a different monitoring/instrumentation system understands,
allowing users to only have to think about one instrumentation system.

CollectorRegistry SHOULD offer `register()`/`unregister()` functions, and a
Collector SHOULD be allowed to be registered to multiple CollectorRegistrys.

Client libraries MUST be thread safe.

For non-OO languages such as C, client libraries should follow the spirit of
this structure as much as is practical.

### Naming

Client libraries SHOULD follow function/method/class names mentioned in this
document, keeping in mind the naming conventions of the language they’re
working in. For example, `set_to_current_time()` is good for a method name in
Python, but `SetToCurrentTime()` is better in Go and `setToCurrentTime()` is
the convention in Java. Where names differ for technical reasons (e.g. not
allowing function overloading), documentation/help strings SHOULD point users
towards the other names.

Libraries MUST NOT offer functions/methods/classes with the same or similar
names to ones given here, but with different semantics.

## Metrics

The Counter, Gauge, Summary and Histogram [metric
types](/docs/concepts/metric_types/) are the primary interface by users.

Counter and Gauge MUST be part of the client library. At least one of Summary
and Histogram MUST be offered.

These should be primarily used as file-static variables, that is, global
variables defined in the same file as the code they’re instrumenting. The
client library SHOULD enable this. The common use case is instrumenting a piece
of code overall, not a piece of code in the context of one instance of an
object. Users shouldn’t have to worry about plumbing their metrics throughout
their code, the client library should do that for them (and if it doesn’t,
users will write a wrapper around the library to make it "easier" - which
rarely tends to go well).

There MUST be a default CollectorRegistry, the standard metrics MUST by default
implicitly register into it with no special work required by the user. There
MUST be a way to have metrics not register to the default CollectorRegistry,
for use in batch jobs and unittests. Custom collectors SHOULD also follow this.

Exactly how the metrics should be created varies by language. For some (Java,
Go) a builder approach is best, whereas for others (Python) function arguments
are rich enough to do it in one call.

For example in the Java Simpleclient we have:

```java
class YourClass {
  static final Counter requests = Counter.build()
      .name("requests_total")
      .help("Requests.").register();
}
```

This will register requests with the default CollectorRegistry. By calling
`build()` rather than `register()` the metric won’t be registered (handy for
unittests), you can also pass in a CollectorRegistry to `register()` (handy for
batch jobs).

### Counter

[Counter](/docs/concepts/metric_types/#counter) is a monotonically increasing
counter. It MUST NOT allow the value to decrease, however it MAY be reset to 0
(such as by server restart).

A counter MUST have the following methods:

* `inc()`: Increment the counter by 1
* `inc(double v)`: Increment the counter by the given amount. MUST check that v >= 0.

A counter is ENCOURAGED to have:

A way to count exceptions throw/raised in a given piece of code, and optionally
only certain types of exceptions. This is count_exceptions in Python.

Counters MUST start at 0.

### Gauge

[Gauge](/docs/concepts/metric_types/#gauge) represents a value that can go up
and down.

A gauge MUST have the following methods:

* `inc()`: Increment the gauge by 1
* `inc(double v)`: Increment the gauge by the given amount
* `dec()`: Decrement the gauge by 1
* `dec(double v)`: Decrement the gauge by the given amount
* `set(double v)`: Set the gauge to the given value

Gauges MUST start at 0, you MAY offer a way for a given gauge to start at a
different number.

A gauge SHOULD have the following methods:

* `set_to_current_time()`: Set the gauge to the current unixtime in seconds.

A gauge is ENCOURAGED to have:

A way to track in-progress requests in some piece of code/function. This is
`track_inprogress` in Python.

A way to time a piece of code and set the gauge to its duration in seconds.
This is useful for batch jobs. This is startTimer/setDuration in Java and the
`time()` decorator/context manager in Python. This SHOULD match the pattern in
Summary/Histogram (though `set()` rather than `observe()`).

### Summary

A [summary](/docs/concepts/metric_types/#summary) samples observations (usually
things like request durations) over sliding windows of time and provides
instantaneous insight into their distributions, frequencies, and sums.

A summary MUST NOT allow the user to set "quantile" as a label name, as this is
used internally to designate summary quantiles. A summary is ENCOURAGED to
offer quantiles as exports, though these can’t be aggregated and tend to be
slow. A summary MUST allow not having quantiles, as just `_count`/`_sum` is
quite useful and this MUST be the default.

A summary MUST have the following methods:

* `observe(double v)`: Observe the given amount

A summary SHOULD have the following methods:

Some way to time code for users in seconds. In Python this is the `time()`
decorator/context manager. In Java this is startTimer/observeDuration. Units
other than seconds MUST NOT be offered (if a user wants something else, they
can do it by hand). This should follow the same pattern as Gauge/Histogram.

Summary `_count`/`_sum` MUST start at 0.

### Histogram

[Histograms](/docs/concepts/metric_types/#histogram) allow aggregatable
distributions of events, such as request latencies. This is at its core a
counter per bucket.

A histogram MUST NOT allow `le` as a user-set label, as `le` is used internally
to designate buckets.

A histogram MUST offer a way to manually choose the buckets. Ways to set
buckets in a `linear(start, width, count)` and `exponential(start, factor,
count)` fashion SHOULD be offered. Count MUST include the `+Inf` bucket.

A histogram SHOULD have the same default buckets as other client libraries.
Buckets MUST NOT be changeable once the metric is created.

A histogram MUST have the following methods:

* `observe(double v)`: Observe the given amount

A histogram SHOULD have the following methods:

Some way to time code for users in seconds. In Python this is the `time()`
decorator/context manager. In Java this is `startTimer`/`observeDuration`.
Units other than seconds MUST NOT be offered (if a user wants something else,
they can do it by hand). This should follow the same pattern as Gauge/Summary.

Histogram  `_count`/`_sum` and the buckets MUST start at 0.

**Further metrics considerations**

Providing additional functionality in metrics beyond what’s documented above as
makes sense for a given language is ENCOURAGED.

If there’s a common use case you can make simpler then go for it, as long as it
won’t encourage undesirable behaviours (such as suboptimal metric/label
layouts, or doing computation in the client).

### Labels

Labels are one of the [most powerful
aspects](/docs/practices/instrumentation/#use-labels) of Prometheus, but
[easily abused](/docs/practices/instrumentation/#do-not-overuse-labels).
Accordingly client libraries must be very careful in how labels are offered to
users.

Client libraries MUST NOT allow users to have different
label names for the same metric for Gauge/Counter/Summary/Histogram or any
other Collector offered by the library.

Metrics from custom collectors should almost always have consistent label
names. As there are still rare but valid use cases where this is not the case,
client libraries should not verify this.

While labels are powerful, the majority of metrics will not have labels.
Accordingly the API should allow for labels but not dominate it.

A client library MUST allow for optionally specifying a list of label names at
Gauge/Counter/Summary/Histogram creation time. A client library SHOULD support
any number of label names. A client library MUST validate that label names meet
the [documented
requirements](/docs/concepts/data_model/#metric-names-and-labels).

The general way to provide access to labeled dimension of a metric is via a
`labels()` method that takes either a list of the label values or a map from
label name to label value and returns a "Child". The usual
`.inc()`/`.dec()`/`.observe()` etc. methods can then be called on the Child.

The Child returned by `labels()` SHOULD be cacheable by the user, to avoid
having to look it up again - this matters in latency-critical code.

Metrics with labels SHOULD support a `remove()` method with the same signature
as `labels()` that will remove a Child from the metric no longer exporting it,
and a `clear()` method that removes all Children from the metric. These
invalidate caching of Children.

There SHOULD be a way to initialize a given Child with the default value,
usually just calling `labels()`. Metrics without labels MUST always be
initialized to avoid [problems with missing
metrics](/docs/practices/instrumentation/#avoid-missing-metrics).

### Metric names

Metric names must follow the
[specification](/docs/concepts/data_model/#metric-names-and-labels). As with
label names, this MUST be met for uses of Gauge/Counter/Summary/Histogram and
in any other Collector offered with the library.

Many client libraries offer setting the name in three parts:
`namespace_subsystem_name` of which only the `name` is mandatory.

Dynamic/generated metric names or subparts of metric names MUST be discouraged,
except when a custom Collector is proxying from other
instrumentation/monitoring systems. Generated/dynamic metric names are a sign
that you should be using labels instead.

### Metric description and help

Gauge/Counter/Summary/Histogram MUST require metric descriptions/help to be
provided.

Any custom Collectors provided with the client libraries MUST have
descriptions/help on their metrics.

It is suggested to make it a mandatory argument, but not to check that it’s of
a certain length as if someone really doesn’t want to write docs we’re not
going to convince them otherwise. Collectors offered with the library (and
indeed everywhere we can within the ecosystem) SHOULD have good metric
descriptions, to lead by example.

## Exposition

Clients MUST implement the text-based exposition format outlined in the
[exposition formats](/docs/instrumenting/exposition_formats) documentation.

Reproducible order of the exposed metrics is ENCOURAGED (especially for human
readable formats) if it can be implemented without a significant resource cost.

## Standard and runtime collectors

Client libraries SHOULD offer what they can of the Standard exports, documented
below.

These SHOULD be implemented as custom Collectors, and registered by default on
the default CollectorRegistry. There SHOULD be a way to disable these, as there
are some very niche use cases where they get in the way.

### Process metrics

These metrics have the prefix `process_`. If obtaining a necessary value is
problematic or even impossible with the used language or runtime, client
libraries SHOULD prefer leaving out the corresponding metric over exporting
bogus, inaccurate, or special values (like `NaN`). All memory values in bytes,
all times in unixtime/seconds.

| Metric name                        | Help string                                            | Unit             |
| ---------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------ | ---------------  |
| `process_cpu_seconds_total`        | Total user and system CPU time spent in seconds.       | seconds          |
| `process_open_fds`                 | Number of open file descriptors.                       | file descriptors |
| `process_max_fds`                  | Maximum number of open file descriptors.               | file descriptors |
| `process_virtual_memory_bytes`     | Virtual memory size in bytes.                          | bytes            |
| `process_virtual_memory_max_bytes` | Maximum amount of virtual memory available in bytes.   | bytes            |
| `process_resident_memory_bytes`    | Resident memory size in bytes.                         | bytes            |
| `process_heap_bytes`               | Process heap size in bytes.                            | bytes            |
| `process_start_time_seconds`       | Start time of the process since unix epoch in seconds. | seconds          |
| `process_threads`                  | Number of OS threads in the process.             | threads          |

### Runtime metrics

In addition, client libraries are ENCOURAGED to also offer whatever makes sense
in terms of metrics for their language’s runtime (e.g. garbage collection
stats), with an appropriate prefix such as `go_`, `hotspot_` etc.

## Unit tests

Client libraries SHOULD have unit tests covering the core instrumentation
library and exposition.

Client libraries are ENCOURAGED to offer ways that make it easy for users to
unit-test their use of the instrumentation code. For example, the
`CollectorRegistry.get_sample_value` in Python.

## Packaging and dependencies

Ideally, a client library can be included in any application to add some
instrumentation without breaking the application.

Accordingly, caution is advised when adding dependencies to the client library.
For example, if you add a library that uses a Prometheus client that requires
version x.y of a library but the application uses x.z elsewhere, will that have
an adverse impact on the application?

It is suggested that where this may arise, that the core instrumentation is
separated from the bridges/exposition of metrics in a given format. For
example, the Java simpleclient `simpleclient` module has no dependencies, and
the `simpleclient_servlet` has the HTTP bits.

## Performance considerations

As client libraries must be thread-safe, some form of concurrency control is
required and consideration must be given to performance on multi-core machines
and applications.

In our experience the least performant is mutexes.

Processor atomic instructions tend to be in the middle, and generally
acceptable.

Approaches that avoid different CPUs mutating the same bit of RAM work best,
such as the DoubleAdder in Java’s simpleclient. There is a memory cost though.

As noted above, the result of `labels()` should be cacheable. The concurrent
maps that tend to back metric with labels tend to be relatively slow.
Special-casing metrics without labels to avoid `labels()`-like lookups can help
a lot.

Metrics SHOULD avoid blocking when they are being incremented/decremented/set
etc. as it’s undesirable for the whole application to be held up while a scrape
is ongoing.

Having benchmarks of the main instrumentation operations, including labels, is
ENCOURAGED.

Resource consumption, particularly RAM, should be kept in mind when performing
exposition. Consider reducing the memory footprint by streaming results, and
potentially having a limit on the number of concurrent scrapes.

title  Writing client libraries sort rank  2        Writing client libraries  This document covers what functionality and API Prometheus client libraries should offer  with the aim of consistency across libraries  making the easy use cases easy and avoiding offering functionality that may lead users down the wrong path   There are  10 languages already supported   docs instrumenting clientlibs  at the time of writing  so we ve gotten a good sense by now of how to write a client  These guidelines aim to help authors of new client libraries produce good libraries      Conventions  MUST MUST NOT SHOULD SHOULD NOT MAY have the meanings given in  https   www ietf org rfc rfc2119 txt  https   www ietf org rfc rfc2119 txt   In addition ENCOURAGED means that a feature is desirable for a library to have  but it s okay if it s not present  In other words  a nice to have   Things to keep in mind     Take advantage of each language s features     The common use cases should be easy     The correct way to do something should be the easy way     More complex use cases should be possible   The common use cases are  in order      Counters without labels spread liberally around libraries applications     Timing functions blocks of code in Summaries Histograms     Gauges to track current states of things  and their limits      Monitoring of batch jobs      Overall structure  Clients MUST be written to be callback based internally  Clients SHOULD generally follow the structure described here   The key class is the Collector  This has a method  typically called  collect   that returns zero or more metrics and their samples  Collectors get registered with a CollectorRegistry  Data is exposed by passing a CollectorRegistry to a class method function  bridge   which returns the metrics in a format Prometheus supports  Every time the CollectorRegistry is scraped it must callback to each of the Collectors  collect method   The interface most users interact with are the Counter  Gauge  Summary  and Histogram Collectors  These represent a single metric  and should cover the vast majority of use cases where a user is instrumenting their own code   More advanced uses cases  such as proxying from another monitoring instrumentation system  require writing a custom Collector  Someone may also want to write a  bridge  that takes a CollectorRegistry and produces data in a format a different monitoring instrumentation system understands  allowing users to only have to think about one instrumentation system   CollectorRegistry SHOULD offer  register     unregister    functions  and a Collector SHOULD be allowed to be registered to multiple CollectorRegistrys   Client libraries MUST be thread safe   For non OO languages such as C  client libraries should follow the spirit of this structure as much as is practical       Naming  Client libraries SHOULD follow function method class names mentioned in this document  keeping in mind the naming conventions of the language they re working in  For example   set to current time    is good for a method name in  Python  but  SetToCurrentTime    is better in Go and  setToCurrentTime    is the convention in Java  Where names differ for technical reasons  e g  not allowing function overloading   documentation help strings SHOULD point users towards the other names   Libraries MUST NOT offer functions methods classes with the same or similar names to ones given here  but with different semantics      Metrics  The Counter  Gauge  Summary and Histogram  metric types   docs concepts metric types   are the primary interface by users   Counter and Gauge MUST be part of the client library  At least one of Summary and Histogram MUST be offered   These should be primarily used as file static variables  that is  global variables defined in the same file as the code they re instrumenting  The client library SHOULD enable this  The common use case is instrumenting a piece of code overall  not a piece of code in the context of one instance of an object  Users shouldn t have to worry about plumbing their metrics throughout their code  the client library should do that for them  and if it doesn t  users will write a wrapper around the library to make it  easier    which rarely tends to go well    There MUST be a default CollectorRegistry  the standard metrics MUST by default implicitly register into it with no special work required by the user  There MUST be a way to have metrics not register to the default CollectorRegistry  for use in batch jobs and unittests  Custom collectors SHOULD also follow this   Exactly how the metrics should be created varies by language  For some  Java  Go  a builder approach is best  whereas for others  Python  function arguments are rich enough to do it in one call   For example in the Java Simpleclient we have      java class YourClass     static final Counter requests   Counter build          name  requests total          help  Requests    register           This will register requests with the default CollectorRegistry  By calling  build    rather than  register    the metric won t be registered  handy for unittests   you can also pass in a CollectorRegistry to  register     handy for batch jobs        Counter   Counter   docs concepts metric types  counter  is a monotonically increasing counter  It MUST NOT allow the value to decrease  however it MAY be reset to 0  such as by server restart    A counter MUST have the following methods      inc     Increment the counter by 1    inc double v    Increment the counter by the given amount  MUST check that v    0   A counter is ENCOURAGED to have   A way to count exceptions throw raised in a given piece of code  and optionally only certain types of exceptions  This is count exceptions in Python   Counters MUST start at 0       Gauge   Gauge   docs concepts metric types  gauge  represents a value that can go up and down   A gauge MUST have the following methods      inc     Increment the gauge by 1    inc double v    Increment the gauge by the given amount    dec     Decrement the gauge by 1    dec double v    Decrement the gauge by the given amount    set double v    Set the gauge to the given value  Gauges MUST start at 0  you MAY offer a way for a given gauge to start at a different number   A gauge SHOULD have the following methods      set to current time     Set the gauge to the current unixtime in seconds   A gauge is ENCOURAGED to have   A way to track in progress requests in some piece of code function  This is  track inprogress  in Python   A way to time a piece of code and set the gauge to its duration in seconds  This is useful for batch jobs  This is startTimer setDuration in Java and the  time    decorator context manager in Python  This SHOULD match the pattern in Summary Histogram  though  set    rather than  observe           Summary  A  summary   docs concepts metric types  summary  samples observations  usually things like request durations  over sliding windows of time and provides instantaneous insight into their distributions  frequencies  and sums   A summary MUST NOT allow the user to set  quantile  as a label name  as this is used internally to designate summary quantiles  A summary is ENCOURAGED to offer quantiles as exports  though these can t be aggregated and tend to be slow  A summary MUST allow not having quantiles  as just   count    sum  is quite useful and this MUST be the default   A summary MUST have the following methods      observe double v    Observe the given amount  A summary SHOULD have the following methods   Some way to time code for users in seconds  In Python this is the  time    decorator context manager  In Java this is startTimer observeDuration  Units other than seconds MUST NOT be offered  if a user wants something else  they can do it by hand   This should follow the same pattern as Gauge Histogram   Summary   count    sum  MUST start at 0       Histogram   Histograms   docs concepts metric types  histogram  allow aggregatable distributions of events  such as request latencies  This is at its core a counter per bucket   A histogram MUST NOT allow  le  as a user set label  as  le  is used internally to designate buckets   A histogram MUST offer a way to manually choose the buckets  Ways to set buckets in a  linear start  width  count   and  exponential start  factor  count   fashion SHOULD be offered  Count MUST include the   Inf  bucket   A histogram SHOULD have the same default buckets as other client libraries  Buckets MUST NOT be changeable once the metric is created   A histogram MUST have the following methods      observe double v    Observe the given amount  A histogram SHOULD have the following methods   Some way to time code for users in seconds  In Python this is the  time    decorator context manager  In Java this is  startTimer   observeDuration   Units other than seconds MUST NOT be offered  if a user wants something else  they can do it by hand   This should follow the same pattern as Gauge Summary   Histogram    count    sum  and the buckets MUST start at 0     Further metrics considerations    Providing additional functionality in metrics beyond what s documented above as makes sense for a given language is ENCOURAGED   If there s a common use case you can make simpler then go for it  as long as it won t encourage undesirable behaviours  such as suboptimal metric label layouts  or doing computation in the client        Labels  Labels are one of the  most powerful aspects   docs practices instrumentation  use labels  of Prometheus  but  easily abused   docs practices instrumentation  do not overuse labels   Accordingly client libraries must be very careful in how labels are offered to users   Client libraries MUST NOT allow users to have different label names for the same metric for Gauge Counter Summary Histogram or any other Collector offered by the library   Metrics from custom collectors should almost always have consistent label names  As there are still rare but valid use cases where this is not the case  client libraries should not verify this   While labels are powerful  the majority of metrics will not have labels  Accordingly the API should allow for labels but not dominate it   A client library MUST allow for optionally specifying a list of label names at Gauge Counter Summary Histogram creation time  A client library SHOULD support any number of label names  A client library MUST validate that label names meet the  documented requirements   docs concepts data model  metric names and labels    The general way to provide access to labeled dimension of a metric is via a  labels    method that takes either a list of the label values or a map from label name to label value and returns a  Child   The usual   inc      dec      observe    etc  methods can then be called on the Child   The Child returned by  labels    SHOULD be cacheable by the user  to avoid having to look it up again   this matters in latency critical code   Metrics with labels SHOULD support a  remove    method with the same signature as  labels    that will remove a Child from the metric no longer exporting it  and a  clear    method that removes all Children from the metric  These invalidate caching of Children   There SHOULD be a way to initialize a given Child with the default value  usually just calling  labels     Metrics without labels MUST always be initialized to avoid  problems with missing metrics   docs practices instrumentation  avoid missing metrics        Metric names  Metric names must follow the  specification   docs concepts data model  metric names and labels   As with label names  this MUST be met for uses of Gauge Counter Summary Histogram and in any other Collector offered with the library   Many client libraries offer setting the name in three parts   namespace subsystem name  of which only the  name  is mandatory   Dynamic generated metric names or subparts of metric names MUST be discouraged  except when a custom Collector is proxying from other instrumentation monitoring systems  Generated dynamic metric names are a sign that you should be using labels instead       Metric description and help  Gauge Counter Summary Histogram MUST require metric descriptions help to be provided   Any custom Collectors provided with the client libraries MUST have descriptions help on their metrics   It is suggested to make it a mandatory argument  but not to check that it s of a certain length as if someone really doesn t want to write docs we re not going to convince them otherwise  Collectors offered with the library  and indeed everywhere we can within the ecosystem  SHOULD have good metric descriptions  to lead by example      Exposition  Clients MUST implement the text based exposition format outlined in the  exposition formats   docs instrumenting exposition formats  documentation   Reproducible order of the exposed metrics is ENCOURAGED  especially for human readable formats  if it can be implemented without a significant resource cost      Standard and runtime collectors  Client libraries SHOULD offer what they can of the Standard exports  documented below   These SHOULD be implemented as custom Collectors  and registered by default on the default CollectorRegistry  There SHOULD be a way to disable these  as there are some very niche use cases where they get in the way       Process metrics  These metrics have the prefix  process    If obtaining a necessary value is problematic or even impossible with the used language or runtime  client libraries SHOULD prefer leaving out the corresponding metric over exporting bogus  inaccurate  or special values  like  NaN    All memory values in bytes  all times in unixtime seconds     Metric name                          Help string                                              Unit                                                                                process cpu seconds total           Total user and system CPU time spent in seconds          seconds               process open fds                    Number of open file descriptors                          file descriptors      process max fds                     Maximum number of open file descriptors                  file descriptors      process virtual memory bytes        Virtual memory size in bytes                             bytes                 process virtual memory max bytes    Maximum amount of virtual memory available in bytes      bytes                 process resident memory bytes       Resident memory size in bytes                            bytes                 process heap bytes                  Process heap size in bytes                               bytes                 process start time seconds          Start time of the process since unix epoch in seconds    seconds               process threads                     Number of OS threads in the process                threads                 Runtime metrics  In addition  client libraries are ENCOURAGED to also offer whatever makes sense in terms of metrics for their language s runtime  e g  garbage collection stats   with an appropriate prefix such as  go     hotspot   etc      Unit tests  Client libraries SHOULD have unit tests covering the core instrumentation library and exposition   Client libraries are ENCOURAGED to offer ways that make it easy for users to unit test their use of the instrumentation code  For example  the  CollectorRegistry get sample value  in Python      Packaging and dependencies  Ideally  a client library can be included in any application to add some instrumentation without breaking the application   Accordingly  caution is advised when adding dependencies to the client library  For example  if you add a library that uses a Prometheus client that requires version x y of a library but the application uses x z elsewhere  will that have an adverse impact on the application   It is suggested that where this may arise  that the core instrumentation is separated from the bridges exposition of metrics in a given format  For example  the Java simpleclient  simpleclient  module has no dependencies  and the  simpleclient servlet  has the HTTP bits      Performance considerations  As client libraries must be thread safe  some form of concurrency control is required and consideration must be given to performance on multi core machines and applications   In our experience the least performant is mutexes   Processor atomic instructions tend to be in the middle  and generally acceptable   Approaches that avoid different CPUs mutating the same bit of RAM work best  such as the DoubleAdder in Java s simpleclient  There is a memory cost though   As noted above  the result of  labels    should be cacheable  The concurrent maps that tend to back metric with labels tend to be relatively slow  Special casing metrics without labels to avoid  labels    like lookups can help a lot   Metrics SHOULD avoid blocking when they are being incremented decremented set etc  as it s undesirable for the whole application to be held up while a scrape is ongoing   Having benchmarks of the main instrumentation operations  including labels  is ENCOURAGED   Resource consumption  particularly RAM  should be kept in mind when performing exposition  Consider reducing the memory footprint by streaming results  and potentially having a limit on the number of concurrent scrapes