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Add prometheus bridge #4227

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@dashpole dashpole commented Aug 21, 2023

Migrated from open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go#4351

This allows applications instrumented with the prometheus client library to use OpenTelemetry exporters (e.g. OTLP).

Limitations:

  • Summary metrics are dropped by the bridge. This could be fixed if we added the summary types to the Go SDK data model, or we could convert the summary to individual gauge and counter series.
  • Start times for histograms and counters are set to the process start time. This would only not be correct when using custom collectors, which is relatively uncommon. That will be fixed when the prometheus client allows recording start times for their instruments.
  • Exponential histograms are not yet supported.

Despite the limitations, I think this still has a lot of value to users.

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I've addressed open comments on the original PR.

@dashpole dashpole marked this pull request as ready for review August 21, 2023 20:59
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pirgeo commented Aug 22, 2023

Is there not a summary metric type in OTLP for exactly that reason? Or is it missing in the Go SDK data model?

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It is missing in the Go SDK data model. Adding it to the data model would mean in-process exporters would have to handle summary-typed metrics. But maybe it is better to add it, and expect most exporters other than OTLP to drop it...

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pirgeo commented Aug 22, 2023

Got it!

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LGTM outside of some naming issue and module tracking in versions.yaml.

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Rebased. I think this is good to go

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I just left some comments for the documentation. Reference: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#documentation

@dashpole let me know if you want me to merge this PR as it is.

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* Summary metrics are dropped by the bridge.
* Start times for histograms and counters are set to the process start time.
* It does not currently support exponential histograms.
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Can we move it to doc.go?

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## Usage

```golang
// Make a Promethes bridge "Metric Producer" that adds metrics from the
// Prometheus DefaultGatherer. Add the WithGatherer(registry) option to add
// metrics from other registries.
bridge := prometheus.NewMetricProducer()
// Make a Periodic Reader to periodically gather metrics from the bridge, and
// push to an OpenTelemetry exporter.
reader := metric.NewPeriodicReader(otelExporter, metric.WithProducer(bridge))
// Create an OTel MeterProvider with our reader. Metrics from OpenTelemetry
// instruments are combined with metrics from Prometheus instruments in
// exported batches of metrics.
mp := metric.NewMeterProvider(metric.WithReader(reader))
```
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We can make a "testable example" in example_test.go instead.

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I think we can get rid of this file in favor of doc.go and example_test.go.

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The Prometheus Bridge allows using the Prometheus Golang client library
(github.com/prometheus/client_golang) with the OpenTelemetry SDK.
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You can move it to doc.go.

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I'd prefer to merge as-is. I'll open a follow-up with the new docs.

@pellared pellared merged commit 635c5bc into open-telemetry:main Sep 26, 2023
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@MrAlias MrAlias added this to the v1.20.0/v0.45.0 milestone Sep 28, 2023
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