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

Custom gauges

Add custom gauges to add own values to the metrics

r := gin.New()
p := ginprom.New(
	ginprom.Engine(r),
)
p.AddCustomGauge("custom", "Some help text to provide", []string{"label"})
r.Use(p.Instrument())

Save p and use the following functions:

• IncrementGaugeValue
• DecrementGaugeValue
• SetGaugeValue

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())

Prometheus Registry

Use a custom prometheus.Registry instead of prometheus client's global registry. This option allows to use ginprom in multiple gin engines in the same process, or if you would like to integrate ginprom with your own prometheus Registry.

registry := prometheus.NewRegistry() // creates new prometheus metric registry
r := gin.New()
p := ginprom.New(
    ginprom.Registry(registry),
)
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())

Bucket size

Specify the bucket size for the request duration histogram according to your expected durations.

r := gin.New()
p := ginprom.New(
	ginprom.Engine(r),
	ginprom.BucketSize([]float64{.005, .01, .025, .05, .1, .25, .5, 1, 2.5, 5, 10}),
)
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.