VictoriaMetrics/metrics

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Lightweight alternative to github.com/prometheus/client_golang

Stars: 708
Forks: 85
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 19
Avg merge: 2d 6m
Merged PRs (30d): 1

Dominant language: Go
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 3, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
Contributing guide: No contributing guide
Code of conduct: No code of conduct
Beginner labels: good first issue help wanted

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19 open issues indexed

Histogram.Update counts exactly 1e18 in the +Inf bucket instead of the top regular bucket Open

bug

VictoriaMetrics/metrics#130 · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 11, 2026
PSI detection relies on /proc/self/cgroup heuristic and may try to read cpu.pressure when PSI files are unavailable Open

bug

VictoriaMetrics/metrics#122 · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 1, 2026
Support limiting histograms bucket count Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

VictoriaMetrics/metrics#111 · 1 comment · 4 reactions · Opened Jan 9, 2026
enhancement: update Go runtime metrics to make it compatible with Prometheus Go SDK Open

enhancement good first issue

VictoriaMetrics/metrics#97 · 2 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 12, 2025
Custom httpclient support Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

VictoriaMetrics/metrics#88 · 2 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Apr 1, 2025
vmagent loses some metrics because it doesn't push them on shutdown Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

VictoriaMetrics/metrics#67 · 5 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Jan 22, 2024
AD: I made a grafana dashboard, which contains all the golang runtime metrics of this component Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

VictoriaMetrics/metrics#63 · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 27, 2023
program will oom cause massive metrics in memory without expiring mechanism Open

question

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

VictoriaMetrics/metrics#56 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 16, 2023
Add optional support for data type and description for metrics Open

enhancement help wanted

VictoriaMetrics/metrics#48 · 15 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 20, 2023
What's the best way to purge a metrics set? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

VictoriaMetrics/metrics#34 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 15, 2022
need a way to do gzip compress before http response Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

VictoriaMetrics/metrics#33 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 17, 2022
Add `Unregister` method for metrics Open

enhancement TBD

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

VictoriaMetrics/metrics#32 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Mar 10, 2022
VM as a metric solution, metrtics API need to add more feature Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

VictoriaMetrics/metrics#31 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 28, 2022
Export CPU cores metrics Open

enhancement

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

VictoriaMetrics/metrics#30 · 2 reactions · Opened Feb 21, 2022
Helper function to build metric's name Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

VictoriaMetrics/metrics#25 · 15 comments · Opened Jun 10, 2021
Sampling support Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

VictoriaMetrics/metrics#24 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened May 12, 2021
Integrate library into statsd_exporter like service Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

VictoriaMetrics/metrics#22 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 18, 2021
High metric churn when using histogram Open

question

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

VictoriaMetrics/metrics#17 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 5, 2020
Negative histogram values are planned? Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

VictoriaMetrics/metrics#9 · 6 comments · 7 reactions · Opened May 12, 2020

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