A suite of instrumentation metric primitives for Ruby that can be exposed through a JSON web services interface. Intended to be used together with a Prometheus server.
require 'prometheus/client'
# returns a default registry
prometheus = Prometheus::Client.registry
# create a new counter metric
http_requests = Prometheus::Client::Counter.new(:http_requests, 'A counter of HTTP requests made')
# register the metric
prometheus.register(http_requests)
# equivalent helper function
http_requests = prometheus.counter(:http_requests, 'A counter of HTTP requests made')
# start using the counter
http_requests.incrementThere are two Rack middlewares available, one to expose a metrics HTTP endpoint to be scraped by a prometheus server (Exporter) and one to trace all HTTP requests (Collector).
# config.ru
require 'rack'
require 'prometheus/client/rack/collector'
require 'prometheus/client/rack/exporter'
use Prometheus::Client::Rack::Collector
use Prometheus::Client::Rack::Exporter
run lambda { |env| [200, {'Content-Type' => 'text/html'}, ['OK']] }Start the server and have a look at the metrics endpoint: http://localhost:5000/metrics.
For further instructions and other scripts to get started, have a look at the integrated example application.
The Ruby client can also be used to push its collected metrics to a Pushgateway. This comes in handy with batch jobs or in other scenarios where it's not possible or feasible to let a Prometheus server scrape a Ruby process.
require 'prometheus/client'
require 'prometheus/client/push'
prometheus = Prometheus::Client.registry
# ... register some metrics, set/add/increment/etc. their values
# push the registry state to the default gateway
Prometheus::Client::Push.new('my-batch-job').add(prometheus)
# optional: specify the instance name (instead of IP) and gateway
Prometheus::Client::Push.new(
'my-job', 'instance-name', 'http://example.domain:1234').add(prometheus)
# If you want to replace any previously pushed metrics for a given instance,
# use the #replace method.
Prometheus::Client::Push.new('my-batch-job', 'instance').replace(prometheus)The following metric types are currently supported.
Counter is a metric that exposes merely a sum or tally of things.
counter = Prometheus::Client::Counter.new(:foo, '...')
# increment the counter for a given label set
counter.increment(service: 'foo')
# increment by a given value
counter.increment({ service: 'bar' }, 5)
# decrement the counter
counter.decrement(service: 'exceptional')
# get current value for a given label set
counter.get(service: 'bar')
# => 5Gauge is a metric that exposes merely an instantaneous value or some snapshot thereof.
gauge = Prometheus::Client::Gauge.new(:bar, '...')
# set a value
gauge.set({ role: 'base' }, 'up')
# retrieve the current value for a given label set
gauge.get({ role: 'problematic' })
# => 'down'Summary is an accumulator for samples. It captures Numeric data and provides an efficient percentile calculation mechanism.
summary = Prometheus::Client::Summary.new(:baz, '...')
# record a value
summary.add({ service: 'slow' }, Benchmark.realtime { service.call(arg) })
# retrieve the current quantile values
summary.get({ service: 'database' })
# => { 0.5: 1.233122, 0.9: 83.4323, 0.99: 341.3428231 }- add protobuf support
Install necessary development gems with bundle install and run tests with
rspec:
rake