prometheus / prometheus/prometheus

histograms: Implement final OM text format

Open
#11,265 6 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

Nobody has claimed this yet.

component/scraping priority/P3
Dominant language
Go
Stars
66.1k
Forks
10.8k
Avg merge
2d 1h
Merged PRs (30d)
131

Description

Once OM has decided how the text format representation of Native Histograms should look like (likely in OM 2.0, cf. https://github.com/OpenObservability/OpenMetrics/issues/237 for tracking), we need to implement it here in prometheus/prometheus.

This is needed to declare Native Histograms a stable feature.

See also #11172, which will inform how to design the text format.

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by reading OpenMetrics issue #237 to find the pending decision on the Native Histograms text representation, then review Prometheus issue #11172 for related design context. Work can begin once the OM format is finalized; done means Prometheus implements that final representation consistently.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
go
Domain
observability
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
20/100

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.