Introduction
In this post I will show you how to push metrics programmatically to Pushgateway. There are two types of puffed out metrics:
- Text
- Protocol buffer
In this post we will cover Protocol buffer
Library for languages
There is a library for each language, although it is a little blind spot because the metric push method to Push gateway is implemented in the client library of Prometheus. Normally, it is better to use the following library.
Prometheus Client Data Specifications
The following documentation describes the format of Prometheus Client Data.
32-Bit Varint-Encoded Record Length-Delimited need to be applied
It seems good to add the Length of the entire byte string of Protocol buffer to the beginning of the byte string.
