Is it a CounterVec you're using? If so, I think that v.With(labels...) should be sufficient to initialise it.
On Wednesday, 3 May 2023 at 20:52:57 UTC+1 Johny wrote: > 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 > > <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/ad84a4e8-3aa4-476a-9b18-edc11ebd1ac5n%40googlegroups.com.
