prometheus / prometheus/common
Allow MetricFamilyToText to omit Type information if specified
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- Go
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Description
Similar to HELP, it would be nice to have the option to toggle TYPE being included
// Comments, first HELP, then TYPE.
if in.Help != nil {
}
Some context: https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/11417
Note: I would like to make this contribution 🙂
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Search the Go repository for MetricFamilyToText and inspect the existing HELP handling where comments are emitted. Add an option that controls whether TYPE information is included, then verify that the default behavior is preserved and the requested omission works.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- go
- Domain
- observability-sre
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100