By the way, if anyone's interested we've open-sources our library and it can be found on github <https://github.com/outbrain/prometheus-client>.
On Monday, April 10, 2017 at 10:23:58 AM UTC+3, Guy Marom wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > I'm part of the team in my company that's in charge of metrics and we > recently implemented a library to wrap Dropwizard metrics for consumption > in Prometheus as their Java client is problematic. > A lot of our developers expressed the need of a "SettableGauge" - a gauge > with a "set" method. > I was wondering if any consideration was ever given to this and if there > are drawbacks to this method? > > One drawback we are aware of is that it is confusing. Since Prometheus > "pulls" the values from the process it's entirely possible that not all the > values that were set to the gauge will later show in Prometheus' database. > > Thanks for the information, > > Guy > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "dropwizard-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dropwizard-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
