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lib/prometheus/metric/counter.ex
defmodule Prometheus.Metric.Counter do
@moduledoc """
Counter is a Metric that represents a single numerical value that only ever
goes up. That implies that it cannot be used to count items whose number can
also go down, e.g. the number of currently running processes. Those
"counters" are represented by `Prometheus.Metric.Gauge`.
A Counter is typically used to count requests served, tasks completed, errors
occurred, etc.
Example use cases for Counters:
- Number of requests processed;
- Number of items that were inserted into a queue;
- Total amount of data that a system has processed.
Use the [`rate()`](https://prometheus.io/docs/querying/functions/#rate())/
[`irate()`](https://prometheus.io/docs/querying/functions/#irate())
functions in Prometheus to calculate the rate of increase of a Counter.
By convention, the names of Counters are suffixed by `_total`.
To create a counter use either `new/1` or `declare/1`, the difference is that
`new/` will raise `Prometheus.MFAlreadyExistsError` exception if counter with
the same `registry`, `name` and `labels` combination already exists.
Both accept `spec` `Keyword` with the same set of keys:
- `:registry` - optional, default is `:default`;
- `:name` - required, can be an atom or a string;
- `:help` - required, must be a string;
- `:labels` - optional, default is `[]`.
Example:
```
defmodule MyServiceInstrumenter do
use Prometheus.Metric
## to be called at app/supervisor startup.
## to tolerate restarts use declare.
def setup() do
Counter.declare([name: :my_service_requests_total,
help: "Requests count.",
labels: [:caller]])
end
def inc(caller) do
Counter.inc([name: :my_service_requests_total,
labels: [caller]])
end
end
```
"""
use Prometheus.Erlang, :prometheus_counter
@doc """
Creates a counter using `spec`.
Raises `Prometheus.MissingMetricSpecKeyError` if required `spec` key is missing.<br>
Raises `Prometheus.InvalidMetricNameError` if metric name is invalid.<br>
Raises `Prometheus.InvalidMetricHelpError` if help is invalid.<br>
Raises `Prometheus.InvalidMetricLabelsError` if labels isn't a list.<br>
Raises `Prometheus.InvalidLabelNameError` if label name is invalid.<br>
Raises `Prometheus.MFAlreadyExistsError` if a counter with
the same `spec` already exists.
"""
defmacro new(spec) do
Erlang.call([spec])
end
@doc """
Creates a counter using `spec`.
If a counter with the same `spec` exists returns `false`.
Raises `Prometheus.MissingMetricSpecKeyError` if required `spec` key is missing.<br>
Raises `Prometheus.InvalidMetricNameError` if metric name is invalid.<br>
Raises `Prometheus.InvalidMetricHelpError` if help is invalid.<br>
Raises `Prometheus.InvalidMetricLabelsError` if labels isn't a list.<br>
Raises `Prometheus.InvalidLabelNameError` if label name is invalid.
"""
defmacro declare(spec) do
Erlang.call([spec])
end
@doc """
Increments the counter identified by `spec` by `value`.
Raises `Prometheus.InvalidValueError` exception if `value` isn't a positive integer.<br>
Raises `Prometheus.UnknownMetricError` exception if a counter
for `spec` can't be found.<br>
Raises `Prometheus.InvalidMetricArityError` exception if labels count mismatch.
"""
defmacro inc(spec, value \\ 1) do
Erlang.metric_call(:inc, spec, [value])
end
@doc """
Increments the counter identified by `spec` by `value`.
If `value` happened to be a float number even one time(!) you
shouldn't use `inc/2` after dinc.
Raises `Prometheus.InvalidValueError` exception if `value` isn't a positive number.<br>
Raises `Prometheus.UnknownMetricError` exception if a counter
for `spec` can't be found.<br>
Raises `Prometheus.InvalidMetricArityError` exception if labels count mismatch.
"""
defmacro dinc(spec, value \\ 1) do
Erlang.metric_call({:prometheus_counter, :dinc}, spec, [value])
end
@doc """
Removes counter series identified by spec.
Raises `Prometheus.UnknownMetricError` exception if a counter
for `spec` can't be found.<br>
Raises `Prometheus.InvalidMetricArityError` exception if labels count mismatch.
"""
defmacro remove(spec) do
Erlang.metric_call(spec)
end
@doc """
Resets the value of the counter identified by `spec`.
Raises `Prometheus.UnknownMetricError` exception if a counter
for `spec` can't be found.<br>
Raises `Prometheus.InvalidMetricArityError` exception if labels count mismatch.
"""
defmacro reset(spec) do
Erlang.metric_call(spec)
end
@doc """
Returns the value of the counter identified by `spec`. If there is no counter for
given labels combination, returns `:undefined`.
Raises `Prometheus.UnknownMetricError` exception if a counter
for `spec` can't be found.<br>
Raises `Prometheus.InvalidMetricArityError` exception if labels count mismatch.
"""
defmacro value(spec) do
Erlang.metric_call({:prometheus_counter, :value}, spec)
end
end