go_metrics.go: follow-up for 8870cd36e76c191e1868f59846368468e5913919

- Expose Go runtime histograms as summaries, since they have too many buckets,
  which may lead to high cardinality issues at scraper side.

- Expose go_gc_pauses_seconds summary

- Document exposed go_* metrics

go_metrics.go

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ var runtimeMetrics = [][2]string{
 	{"/sync/mutex/wait/total:seconds", "go_mutex_wait_seconds_total"},
 	{"/cpu/classes/gc/mark/assist:cpu-seconds", "go_gc_mark_assist_cpu_seconds_total"},
 	{"/cpu/classes/gc/total:cpu-seconds", "go_gc_cpu_seconds_total"},
+	{"/gc/pauses:seconds", "go_gc_pauses_seconds"},
 	{"/cpu/classes/scavenge/total:cpu-seconds", "go_scavenge_cpu_seconds_total"},
 	{"/gc/gomemlimit:bytes", "go_memlimit_bytes"},
 }
@@ -103,14 +104,23 @@ func writeRuntimeMetric(w io.Writer, name string, sample *runtimemetrics.Sample)
 }
 
 func writeRuntimeHistogramMetric(w io.Writer, name string, h *runtimemetrics.Float64Histogram) {
-	runningCount := uint64(0)
+	// Expose histogram metric as summary, since Go runtime returns too many histogram buckets,
+	// which may lead to high cardinality issues at the scraper side.
 	buckets := h.Buckets
-	for i, count := range h.Counts {
-		fmt.Fprintf(w, `%s_bucket{le="%g"} %d`+"\n", name, buckets[i], runningCount)
-		runningCount += count
+	counts := h.Counts
+	totalCount := uint64(0)
+	for _, count := range counts {
+		totalCount += count
 	}
-	fmt.Fprintf(w, `%s_bucket{le="%g"} %d`+"\n", name, buckets[len(buckets)-1], runningCount)
-	if !math.IsInf(buckets[len(buckets)-1], 1) {
-		fmt.Fprintf(w, `%s_bucket{le="+Inf"} %d`+"\n", name, runningCount)
+	for _, q := range defaultSummaryQuantiles {
+		upperBound := uint64(math.Ceil(q * float64(totalCount)))
+		runningCount := uint64(0)
+		for i, count := range counts {
+			runningCount += count
+			if runningCount >= upperBound {
+				fmt.Fprintf(w, `%s{quantile="%g"} %g`+"\n", name, q, buckets[i+1])
+				break
+			}
+		}
 	}
 }

go_metrics_test.go

@@ -22,44 +22,40 @@ func TestWriteRuntimeHistogramMetricOk(t *testing.T) {
 	f(&runtimemetrics.Float64Histogram{
 		Counts:  []uint64{1, 2, 3},
 		Buckets: []float64{1, 2, 3, 4},
-	}, `foo_bucket{le="1"} 0
-foo_bucket{le="2"} 1
-foo_bucket{le="3"} 3
-foo_bucket{le="4"} 6
-foo_bucket{le="+Inf"} 6
+	}, `foo{quantile="0.5"} 3
+foo{quantile="0.9"} 4
+foo{quantile="0.97"} 4
+foo{quantile="0.99"} 4
+foo{quantile="1"} 4
 `)
 
 	f(&runtimemetrics.Float64Histogram{
-		Counts:  []uint64{0, 25, 1, 3},
+		Counts:  []uint64{0, 25, 1, 0},
 		Buckets: []float64{1, 2, 3, 4, math.Inf(1)},
-	}, `foo_bucket{le="1"} 0
-foo_bucket{le="2"} 0
-foo_bucket{le="3"} 25
-foo_bucket{le="4"} 26
-foo_bucket{le="+Inf"} 29
+	}, `foo{quantile="0.5"} 3
+foo{quantile="0.9"} 3
+foo{quantile="0.97"} 4
+foo{quantile="0.99"} 4
+foo{quantile="1"} 4
 `)
 
 	f(&runtimemetrics.Float64Histogram{
-		Counts:  []uint64{0, 25, 1, 3, 0, 44, 15, 132, 10, 11},
+		Counts:  []uint64{0, 25, 1, 3, 0, 44, 15, 132, 10, 0},
 		Buckets: []float64{1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, math.Inf(1)},
-	}, `foo_bucket{le="1"} 0
-foo_bucket{le="2"} 0
-foo_bucket{le="3"} 25
-foo_bucket{le="4"} 26
-foo_bucket{le="5"} 29
-foo_bucket{le="6"} 29
-foo_bucket{le="7"} 73
-foo_bucket{le="8"} 88
-foo_bucket{le="9"} 220
-foo_bucket{le="10"} 230
-foo_bucket{le="+Inf"} 241
+	}, `foo{quantile="0.5"} 9
+foo{quantile="0.9"} 9
+foo{quantile="0.97"} 10
+foo{quantile="0.99"} 10
+foo{quantile="1"} 10
 `)
 
 	f(&runtimemetrics.Float64Histogram{
-		Counts:  []uint64{1, 5},
-		Buckets: []float64{math.Inf(-1), 4, math.Inf(1)},
-	}, `foo_bucket{le="-Inf"} 0
-foo_bucket{le="4"} 1
-foo_bucket{le="+Inf"} 6
+		Counts:  []uint64{1, 5, 0},
+		Buckets: []float64{math.Inf(-1), 4, 5, math.Inf(1)},
+	}, `foo{quantile="0.5"} 5
+foo{quantile="0.9"} 5
+foo{quantile="0.97"} 5
+foo{quantile="0.99"} 5
+foo{quantile="1"} 5
 `)
 }

metrics.go

@@ -134,10 +134,26 @@ func WritePrometheus(w io.Writer, exposeProcessMetrics bool) {
 //
 //   - process_io_storage_written_bytes_total - the number of bytes actually written to disk
 //
+//   - go_sched_latencies_seconds - time spent by goroutines in ready state before they start execution
+//
+//   - go_mutex_wait_seconds_total - summary time spent by all the goroutines while waiting for locked mutex
+//
+//   - go_gc_mark_assist_cpu_seconds_total - summary CPU time spent by goroutines in GC mark assist state
+//
+//   - go_gc_cpu_seconds_total - summary time spent in GC
+//
+//   - go_gc_pauses_seconds - duration of GC pauses
+//
+//   - go_scavenge_cpu_seconds_total - CPU time spent on returning the memory to OS
+//
+//   - go_memlimit_bytes - the GOMEMLIMIT env var value
+//
 //   - go_memstats_alloc_bytes - memory usage for Go objects in the heap
 //
 //   - go_memstats_alloc_bytes_total - the cumulative counter for total size of allocated Go objects
 //
+//   - go_memstats_buck_hash_sys_bytes - bytes of memory in profiling bucket hash tables
+//
 //   - go_memstats_frees_total - the cumulative counter for number of freed Go objects
 //
 //   - go_memstats_gc_cpu_fraction - the fraction of CPU spent in Go garbage collector
@@ -148,20 +164,42 @@ func WritePrometheus(w io.Writer, exposeProcessMetrics bool) {
 //
 //   - go_memstats_heap_idle_bytes - idle memory ready for new Go object allocations
 //
+//   - go_memstats_heap_inuse_bytes - bytes in in-use spans
+//
 //   - go_memstats_heap_objects - the number of Go objects in the heap
 //
+//   - go_memstats_heap_released_bytes - bytes of physical memory returned to the OS
+//
 //   - go_memstats_heap_sys_bytes - memory requested for Go objects from the OS
 //
+//   - go_memstats_last_gc_time_seconds - unix timestamp the last garbage collection finished
+//
+//   - go_memstats_lookups_total - the number of pointer lookups performed by the runtime
+//
 //   - go_memstats_mallocs_total - the number of allocations for Go objects
 //
+//   - go_memstats_mcache_inuse_bytes - bytes of allocated mcache structures
+//
+//   - go_memstats_mcache_sys_bytes - bytes of memory obtained from the OS for mcache structures
+//
+//   - go_memstats_mspan_inuse_bytes - bytes of allocated mspan structures
+//
+//   - go_memstats_mspan_sys_bytes - bytes of memory obtained from the OS for mspan structures
+//
 //   - go_memstats_next_gc_bytes - the target heap size when the next garbage collection should start
 //
+//   - go_memstats_other_sys_bytes - bytes of memory in miscellaneous off-heap runtime allocations
+//
 //   - go_memstats_stack_inuse_bytes - memory used for goroutine stacks
 //
 //   - go_memstats_stack_sys_bytes - memory requested fromthe OS for goroutine stacks
 //
 //   - go_memstats_sys_bytes - memory requested by Go runtime from the OS
 //
+//   - go_cgo_calls_count - the total number of CGO calls
+//
+//   - go_cpu_count - the number of CPU cores on the host where the app runs
+//
 // The WriteProcessMetrics func is usually called in combination with writing Set metrics
 // inside "/metrics" handler:
 //