prometheus / prometheus/common
MetricFamilyToOpenMetrics has invalid metric type
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- Go
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Description
In this function untyped metrics are out as "unknown". That makes it invalid for prometheus
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Research direction
Locate MetricFamilyToOpenMetrics in the Go code and inspect how untyped metrics are converted. Reproduce the invalid "unknown" output with an untyped metric, then add or adjust a focused test defining valid OpenMetrics output and use it to verify the fix.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- go
- Domain
- observability
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100