Pushprom

Pushprom is a proxy (HTTP/UDP) to the Prometheus Go client.

Prometheus doesn't offer a PHP client and PHP clients are hard to implement because they would need to keep track of state and PHP setups generally don't encourage that. That's why we built Pushprom.

Dependencies

Installing

Execute the following command:

go get -u github.com/messagebird/pushprom

To build amd64/linux binary:

make release_linux

To build os & platform dependent native binary:

make native

To build using Docker container:

make container

Release

VERSION=1.0.9 ./release.sh

Usage

Running Pushprom is as easy as executing pushprom on the command line.

$ pushprom
2016/08/25 10:43:32 http.go:36: exposing metrics on http://0.0.0.0:9091/metrics
2016/08/25 10:43:32 udp.go:10: listening for stats UDP on port :9090
2016/08/25 10:43:32 http.go:39: listening for stats on http://0.0.0.0:9091

Use the -h flag to get help information.

$ pushprom -h
Usage of bin/pushprom:
  -http-listen-address string
        The address to listen on for http stat and telemetry requests. (default ":9091")
  -udp-listen-address string
        The address to listen on for udp stats requests. (default ":9090")

Pushprom accepts HTTP and UDP requests. The payloads are in JSON. Here is a full example:

{
      "type": "gauge",
      "name": "trees",
      "help": "the amount of trees in the forest.",
      "method": "add",
      "value": 3002,
      "labels": {
            "species": "araucaria angustifolia",
            "job": "tree-counter-bot"
      }
}

When Pushprom receives this payload (from now on called Delta) it tries to register the metric with type Gauge named trees and then apply the operation add with value 3002 on it.

Protocol support

You can use HTTP requests and UDP packages to push deltas to Pushprom.

HTTP

When using HTTP you should do a POST /.

Example:

curl -H "Content-type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"type": "counter", "name": "gophers", "help": "little burrowing rodents", "method": "inc"}' http://127.0.0.1:9091/

UDP

You move fast and break things.

Example:

echo "{\"type\": \"counter\", \"name\": \"gophers\", \"help\": \"little burrowing rodents\", \"method\": \"inc\"}" | nc -u -w1 127.0.0.1 9090

Caveats

In the Prometheus Go client you can not register a metric with the same name and different help or labels. For example: you register a metric with name gophers and with help little rodents and a little later you think "but they are also burrowing animals!". When you change the help string and push the same metric it won't work: you need to reboot Pushprom.

Clients

We currently offer two flavors of PHP clients for Pushprom:

PHP
Yii 2

Alternatives

Pushgateway

Pushgateway is a metrics cache for Prometheus. It's explicitly not an aggregator, which is the most distinct difference with Pushprom.

Tests

go test ./...

messagebird/pushprom