Thanks for your quick reply. Le jeudi 4 juin 2020 14:42:32 UTC+2, Brian Brazil a écrit :
> Can you explain more about how it doesn't meet your needs, and if you > tried to improve the existing listed library? > > There are several reasons for which we have decided to develop our own client: - the existing client seems to crash on debian 9, and when we first experimented prometheus our workstations were on debian 9 (we now have migrated to debian 10 and the library works fine on this version). When I realized it worked fine on more recent versions, I've decided to not investigate because clearly debian 9 is old. - our software must support RedHat 7 because some of our client servers are running on this distribution; the existing client does not compile on this distribution because it uses atomic doubles for thread safety, that is only supported from gcc 4.8 (and RHEL 7 has gcc 4.7). - the existing client has a dependency on microhttpd library, and would have been a new dependency itself for us. We usually tend to avoid having too much external dependencies for our programs. On the other hand, we already have a HTTP library embeeded in our lib-common, so we preferred reusing it. - thanks to all the tools we have in our library (classes, string manipulation, memory allocators, ...), we thought we could develop the prometheus client in a more simple way than from scratch, and end up with a library more simple to use (I think it really is). As you can see, the reasons are very contextual to our case, and we have nothing to blame about the existing library. Plus ours is much more than just a simple prometheus client, that could be annoying to be integrated in an existing codebase, but very convenient for new projects. > The current listed one appears to be actively maintained, and we try to > avoid duplicates so that everyone is working towards one good library > rather than continuously creating new integrations that lose implicit > knowledge. > Sure, I understand that! > > Brian > Romain. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prometheus Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-developers/71e5375a-8e92-4fbc-9730-dab4a66eb13ao%40googlegroups.com.
