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Fix OpenMetrics valid label keys, and specify prometheus conversion for metric name. #2788
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cc @open-telemetry/wg-prometheus |
@dashpole related question, maybe not answered in this PR: |
For Prometheus/OpenMetrics, empty label keys aren't allowed. We should drop + warn for an empty label. For exporters written using prometheus client libraries, that is already done by the client's validation (e.g. prometheus/client_golang). It might be good to include a catchall statement somewhere to the effect of: "exporters should produce valid prometheus/openmetrics metrics, or MUST drop the metric and emit a warning". |
…or metric name. (open-telemetry#2788) * fix OpenMetrics valid label keys, and specify prometheus conversion for metric name. * deduplicate underscores and fix formatting Co-authored-by: Bogdan Drutu <[email protected]>
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This fixes an incorrect statement about the allowed characters in prometheus label keys found here: open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go#3135 (comment).
During the process, I also realized we don't specify conversion rules for the metric name, including the rules for sanitizing the metric name when converting from OTLP to Prom.
Source: https://github.com/OpenObservability/OpenMetrics/blob/main/specification/OpenMetrics.md#abnf
In that spec,
metricname-initial-char
allows:
, butlabel-name-initial-char
does not.