Instrumenting a Go application

How Go exposition works

To expose Prometheus metrics in a Go application, you need to provide a /metrics HTTP endpoint

package main

import (
        "net/http"

        "github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus/promhttp"
)

func main() {
        http.Handle("/metrics", promhttp.Handler())
        http.ListenAndServe(":2112", nil)
}

Adding your own metrics

var (
        opsProcessed = promauto.NewCounter(prometheus.CounterOpts{
                Name: "myapp_processed_ops_total",
                Help: "The total number of processed events",
        })
)

func recordMetrics() {
        go func() {
                for {
                        opsProcessed.Inc()
                        time.Sleep(2 * time.Second)
                }
        }()
}