General: metrics for arbitrary values (not requests)

[lakay]

General Question

can you give some pointers if it is possible to use the module to expose metrics related not to request tracking? My goal is to write a prom exporter to provide application probe value monitoring received via kafka or tibcorv.

[rycus86]

Yep, it is totally possible. You can either use the helper methods on the PrometheusMetrics instance (like counter, summary, etc) or import the relevant metric types from the underlying prometheus_client library and they will all be collected together with the HTTP metrics. (if you only need metrics for kafka and similar but not for HTTP/Flask, then I'd just use that underlying library - not sure how your app looks like)

Does this help?

[lakay]

Thank you so much for your fast reply. I am going for the prometheus_client module in the first PoC. Might be very interesting to combine it later on with HTTP Metrics.

Great Help, thank you!