Yes golang. I am using promauto to auto register my metrics with the default registry at the time of initialization. https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/prometheus/[email protected]/prometheus/promauto
Do you recall a way to force export it always with a default initial value of 0? On Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 3:33:38 PM UTC-4 Brian Candler wrote: > Yes, you should be able to create a counter which publishes its initial > value of zero. I'm fairly sure I've done this with the Golang client some > time in the past. What language and client library are you using? > > You'll have to initialise the counters explicitly. If the first time the > client library knows about the counter is when you increment it, then > clearly it won't be able to export it until then. > > On Wednesday, 3 May 2023 at 20:19:27 UTC+1 Johny wrote: > >> I need to sum two separate counter metrics capturing request failures to >> compute ratio of error requests for an alerting signal. The code >> initializing and setting these counters sits in separate modules preventing >> reuse of one counter. >> >> The problem is when one of the counter is never incremented after a >> restart, service never exports the data point, prometheus will never get >> the time series and the summation will return nothing. >> >> Is there a way to "force" publish a counter to 0 always on service reboot >> during counter initialization to avoid this problem? >> >> (fail_count1 + fail_count2) / (total_count1 + total_count2) >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prometheus Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/459e259b-7c37-4b23-86fd-271e0852556fn%40googlegroups.com.
