[FLINK-32508] Flink-Metrics Prometheus - Native Histograms / Native Counters

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Runtime / Metrics
• Labels: pull-request-available stale-assigned
• Assignee: Hong Liang Teoh
• Reporter: Ryan van Huuksloot
• Created: 30/Jun/23 20:21
• Updated: 19/Aug/23 22:34

Description

There are new metric types in Prometheus that would allow for the exporter to write Counters and Histograms as Native metrics in prometheus (vs writing as Gauges). This requires an update to the Prometheus Client which has changed it's spec.

To accommodate the new metric types while retaining the old option for prometheus metrics, the recommendation is to Add a new package such as `flink-metrics-prometheus-native` and eventually deprecate the original.

Discussed more on the mailing list: https://lists.apache.org/thread/kbo3973whb8nj5xvkpvhxrmgtmnbkhlv

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #23031