Re: git: 8c47d8f53854 - main - prometheus_sysctl_exporter: fix metric aliasing
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2022 14:22:09 UTC
On 19/04/2022 14:56, Alan Somers wrote: > The branch main has been updated by asomers: > > URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=8c47d8f53854825d8e8591ccd06e32b2c798f81c > > commit 8c47d8f53854825d8e8591ccd06e32b2c798f81c > Author: Alan Somers <asomers@FreeBSD.org> > AuthorDate: 2022-04-18 21:29:37 +0000 > Commit: Alan Somers <asomers@FreeBSD.org> > CommitDate: 2022-04-19 12:56:39 +0000 > > prometheus_sysctl_exporter: fix metric aliasing > > When exporting sysctls to Prometheus, the exporter replaces "." with > "_". This caused several metrics to alias, confusing the Prometheus > server. Fix it by: > > * Renaming the "tcp_log_bucket" UMA zone to "tcp_log_id_bucket". Also, > rename "tcp_log_node" to "tcp_log_id_node" for consistency. > > * Not exporting sysctls with "(LEGACY)" in the description. That is > used by ZFS sysctls that have been replaced by others, many of which > alias to the same Prometheus metric name (like "vfs.zfs.arc_max" and > "vfs.zfs.arc.max"). > > PR: 259607 > Reported by: delphij > MFC after: 2 weeks > Sponsored by: Axcient > Reviewed by: delphij,rew,thj > Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D34952 This should definitely make it to release notes. Also, should we keep a log of these kind of changes in the history section of the manual pages? I find the history logs that systemd folks publish in their manual pages to be quite informative, e.g., https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages//man7/systemd.net-naming-scheme.7.html Best, Mateusz