On 04.04.20 12:44, Victor Watkins wrote:
> 
> I get your point about comparing a simple counter to a logger and not needing
> to put that under test. Thanks, that sanity-checks an opinion I had already
> formed. But suppose we're writing an exporter and that is our core logic that
> we want to prove under test. Following the above example for both styles, how
> do I read a metric without going as far as making an http call to /metrics?
> Perhaps 
> https://github.com/vickleford/promex/blob/master/flopper/flopper.go#L68
>  asks this more succinctly than I can.

You would usually call `Gather` on your registry and inspect the
result. 
https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/prometheus/[email protected]/prometheus/testutil?tab=doc
is a package to help you with that.

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