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Exporter Pushgateway runtime issue in versions 1.3.4 and above
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Description
Version 1.3.3 works correctly
I believe it is caused by https://github.com/prometheus/client_java/pull/1190
I am using default format in pushgateway which I think is protobuf.
Dependencies in pom.xml:
<dependency>
<groupId>io.prometheus</groupId>
<artifactId>prometheus-metrics-core</artifactId>
<version>1.3.4</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>io.prometheus</groupId>
<artifactId>prometheus-metrics-exporter-pushgateway</artifactId>
<version>1.3.4</version>
</dependency>
Runtime issue from shaded jar:
Exception in thread (...) java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: class io.prometheus.metrics.expositionformats.PrometheusProtobufWriter is not available
at io.prometheus.metrics.exporter.pushgateway.PushGateway.<init>(PushGateway.java:99)
at io.prometheus.metrics.exporter.pushgateway.PushGateway.<init>(PushGateway.java:77)
at io.prometheus.metrics.exporter.pushgateway.PushGateway$Builder.build(PushGateway.java:456)
(...)
Caused by: java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError: Exception java.lang.RuntimeException: class io.prometheus.metrics.expositionformats.PrometheusProtobufWriter is not available
So I guess it complains about
https://github.com/prometheus/client_java/blob/main/prometheus-metrics-exporter-pushgateway/src/main/java/io/prometheus/metrics/exporter/pushgateway/PushGateway.java#L9
or
https://github.com/prometheus/client_java/blob/main/prometheus-metrics-exporter-pushgateway/src/main/java/io/prometheus/metrics/exporter/pushgateway/PushGateway.java#L114
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Research direction
Compare the 1.3.3 and 1.3.4 dependency behavior in pom.xml, then inspect PushGateway.java around the referenced lines and the shaded-jar packaging. Trace why PrometheusProtobufWriter is unavailable at runtime and confirm that the default Pushgateway format initializes successfully in a shaded jar.
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- Tech stack
- java
- Domain
- observability-sre
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
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- Newbie friendliness
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