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Mastering Go – Third Edition

You're reading from   Mastering Go – Third Edition Harness the power of Go to build professional utilities and concurrent servers and services

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801079310
Length 682 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Mihalis Tsoukalos Mihalis Tsoukalos
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. A Quick Introduction to Go 2. Basic Go Data Types FREE CHAPTER 3. Composite Data Types 4. Reflection and Interfaces 5. Go Packages and Functions 6. Telling a UNIX System What to Do 7. Go Concurrency 8. Building Web Services 9. Working with TCP/IP and WebSocket 10. Working with REST APIs 11. Code Testing and Profiling 12. Working with gRPC 13. Go Generics 14. Other Books You May Enjoy
15. Index
Appendix A – Go Garbage Collector

Exposing metrics to Prometheus

Imagine that you have an application that writes files to disk and you want to get metrics for that application to better understand how the writing of multiple files has an effect on the general performance—you need to gather performance data for understanding the behavior of your application. Although the presented application uses the gauge type of metric only because it is what is appropriate for the information that is sent to Prometheus, Prometheus accepts many types of data. The list of supported data types for metrics is the following:

  • Counter: This is a cumulative value that is used for representing increasing counters—the value of a counter can stay the same, go up, or be reset to zero but cannot decrease. Counters are usually used for representing cumulative values such as the number of requests served so far, the total number of errors, etc.
  • Gauge: This is a single numerical value that is allowed to increase...
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