Re: git: 8c47d8f53854 - main - prometheus_sysctl_exporter: fix metric aliasing
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2022 14:33:54 UTC
On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 8:22 AM Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp@freebsd.org> wrote: > > 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 used by ZFS sysctls that have been replaced by others, many of which 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 Do you think that the uma zone rename is too disruptive to MFC?