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13
14package collectors
15
16import "github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus"
17
18// NewGoCollector returns a collector that exports metrics about the current Go
19// process. This includes memory stats. To collect those, runtime.ReadMemStats
20// is called. This requires to “stop the world”, which usually only happens for
21// garbage collection (GC). Take the following implications into account when
22// deciding whether to use the Go collector:
23//
24// 1. The performance impact of stopping the world is the more relevant the more
25// frequently metrics are collected. However, with Go1.9 or later the
26// stop-the-world time per metrics collection is very short (~25µs) so that the
27// performance impact will only matter in rare cases. However, with older Go
28// versions, the stop-the-world duration depends on the heap size and can be
29// quite significant (~1.7 ms/GiB as per
30// https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/34937).
31//
32// 2. During an ongoing GC, nothing else can stop the world. Therefore, if the
33// metrics collection happens to coincide with GC, it will only complete after
34// GC has finished. Usually, GC is fast enough to not cause problems. However,
35// with a very large heap, GC might take multiple seconds, which is enough to
36// cause scrape timeouts in common setups. To avoid this problem, the Go
37// collector will use the memstats from a previous collection if
38// runtime.ReadMemStats takes more than 1s. However, if there are no previously
39// collected memstats, or their collection is more than 5m ago, the collection
40// will block until runtime.ReadMemStats succeeds.
41//
42// NOTE: The problem is solved in Go 1.15, see
43// https://github.com/golang/go/issues/19812 for the related Go issue.
44func NewGoCollector() prometheus.Collector {
45	//nolint:staticcheck // Ignore SA1019 until v2.
46	return prometheus.NewGoCollector()
47}
48
49// NewBuildInfoCollector returns a collector collecting a single metric
50// "go_build_info" with the constant value 1 and three labels "path", "version",
51// and "checksum". Their label values contain the main module path, version, and
52// checksum, respectively. The labels will only have meaningful values if the
53// binary is built with Go module support and from source code retrieved from
54// the source repository (rather than the local file system). This is usually
55// accomplished by building from outside of GOPATH, specifying the full address
56// of the main package, e.g. "GO111MODULE=on go run
57// github.com/prometheus/client_golang/examples/random". If built without Go
58// module support, all label values will be "unknown". If built with Go module
59// support but using the source code from the local file system, the "path" will
60// be set appropriately, but "checksum" will be empty and "version" will be
61// "(devel)".
62//
63// This collector uses only the build information for the main module. See
64// https://github.com/povilasv/prommod for an example of a collector for the
65// module dependencies.
66func NewBuildInfoCollector() prometheus.Collector {
67	//nolint:staticcheck // Ignore SA1019 until v2.
68	return prometheus.NewBuildInfoCollector()
69}
70