Github user zentol commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/6184#discussion_r200122491
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flink-metrics/flink-metrics-prometheus/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/metrics/prometheus/AbstractPrometheusReporter.java
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+/*
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+ */
+
+package org.apache.flink.metrics.prometheus;
+
+import org.apache.flink.annotation.PublicEvolving;
+import org.apache.flink.annotation.VisibleForTesting;
+import org.apache.flink.metrics.CharacterFilter;
+import org.apache.flink.metrics.Counter;
+import org.apache.flink.metrics.Gauge;
+import org.apache.flink.metrics.Histogram;
+import org.apache.flink.metrics.Meter;
+import org.apache.flink.metrics.Metric;
+import org.apache.flink.metrics.MetricGroup;
+import org.apache.flink.metrics.reporter.MetricReporter;
+import org.apache.flink.runtime.metrics.groups.AbstractMetricGroup;
+import org.apache.flink.runtime.metrics.groups.FrontMetricGroup;
+
+import io.prometheus.client.Collector;
+import io.prometheus.client.CollectorRegistry;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+import java.util.AbstractMap;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.LinkedList;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.regex.Pattern;
+
+
+/**
+ * base prometheus reporter for prometheus metrics.
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extend javadocs to include responsibilities of this/extending classes.
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