Prometheus Go client library

Prometheus Go client library

This is the Go client library for Prometheus. It has two separate parts, one for instrumenting application code, and one for creating clients that talk to the Prometheus HTTP API.

This library requires Go1.17 or later.

Important note about releases and stability

This repository generally follows Semantic Versioning. However, the API client in prometheus/client_golang/api/… is still considered experimental. Breaking changes of the API client will not trigger a new major release. The same is true for selected other new features explicitly marked as EXPERIMENTAL in CHANGELOG.md.

Features that require breaking changes in the stable parts of the repository are being batched up and tracked in the v2 milestone. The v2 development happens in a separate branch for the time being. v2 releases off that branch will happen once sufficient stability is reached. In view of the widespread use of this repository, v1 and v2 will coexist for a while to enable a convenient transition.

Instrumenting applications

prometheus

examples

Client for the Prometheus HTTP API

api/prometheus

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modelprometheus/common/model

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Contributing and community

See the contributing guidelines and the Community section of the homepage.

client_golang#prometheus-client_golang

For Maintainers: Release Process

To cut a minor version:

release-.main/cut-..VERSIONCHANGELOGrelease-. / main

, fix the merge problems there, and then do a PR into main from the new branch. In that way, you still get all the commits in the release branch back into 

To cut the patch version:

main