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PoolExecutor metrics

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Description

What problem do you want to solve?

In python, both sync and async worlds, there are ThreadPoolExecutors and ProcessPoolExecutors.

These executors have a max_workers parameter that constraints them. If an app hits that amount of workers, exhaustion happen which manifests as degraded performance.

Describe the solution you'd like

Having metrics of that can be useful for app developers to identify bottlenecks and determine better capacity

Implementation can be inspired by https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48572648/how-to-monitor-pythons-concurrent-futures-processpoolexecutor

Describe alternatives you've considered

Instrumenting those metrics in my app code

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Would you like to implement a fix?

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Research direction

No file, test, or instrumentation package is named. Start by locating the repository's Python instrumentation entry points and existing metric patterns for synchronous and asynchronous components. The issue is done when the supported executor cases, metric definitions, and validation approach are agreed and implemented.

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Assessment

Tech stack
python
Domain
observability
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
30/100

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