prometheus-community / prometheus-community/postgres_exporter

Option to disable internal metrics

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Description

For some users, saving the volume of metrics is important. In many other exporters, there are options that completely disable service metrics that are not related to the subject of monitoring, but added by default by golang libraries.

In this case, we are talking about a way to disable metrics go_gc* and process*
The current number of such metrics is 40.

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Research direction

No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by locating how the exporter registers Go runtime and process metrics and how configuration options are exposed; done means users can disable go_gc* and process* metrics while the PostgreSQL metrics remain available.

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Assessment

Tech stack
go, prometheus
Domain
observability
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
45/100

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