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add Client-Side monitoring.
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Michal Witkowski committed Sep 10, 2016
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35 changes: 29 additions & 6 deletions README.md
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[![GoDoc](http://img.shields.io/badge/GoDoc-Reference-blue.svg)](https://godoc.org/github.com/grpc-ecosystem/go-grpc-prometheus)
[![Apache 2.0 License](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-Apache%202.0-blue.svg)](LICENSE)

[Prometheus](https://prometheus.io/) monitoring for your [gRPC Go](https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go) servers.
[Prometheus](https://prometheus.io/) monitoring for your [gRPC Go](https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go) servers and clients.

A sister implementation for [gRPC Java](https://github.com/grpc/grpc-java) (same metrics, same semantics) is in [grpc-ecosystem/java-grpc-prometheus](https://github.com/grpc-ecosystem/java-grpc-prometheus).

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## Usage

There are two types of interceptors: client-side and server-side. This package provides monitoring Interceptors for both.

### Server-side

```go
import "github.com/grpc-ecosystem/go-grpc-prometheus"
...
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grpc.StreamInterceptor(grpc_prometheus.StreamServerInterceptor),
grpc.UnaryInterceptor(grpc_prometheus.UnaryServerInterceptor),
)
// Register your gRPC service implementations.
myservice.RegisterMyServiceServer(s.server, &myServiceImpl{})
// After all your registrations, make sure all of the Prometheus metrics are initialized.
grpc_prometheus.Register(myServer)
// Register Prometheus metrics handler.
http.Handle("/metrics", prometheus.Handler())
...
```

# Metrics
### Client-side

```go
import "github.com/grpc-ecosystem/go-grpc-prometheus"
...
clientConn, err = grpc.Dial(
address,
grpc.WithUnaryInterceptor(UnaryClientInterceptor),
grpc.WithStreamInterceptor(StreamClientInterceptor)
)
client = pb_testproto.NewTestServiceClient(clientConn)
resp, err := client.PingEmpty(s.ctx, &myservice.Request{Msg: "hello"})
...
```

# Metrics

## Labels

All server-side metrics start with `grpc_server` as Prometheus subsystem name. Similarly all methods
All server-side metrics start with `grpc_server` as Prometheus subsystem name. All client-side metrics start with `grpc_client`. Both of them have mirror-concepts. Similarly all methods
contain the same rich labels:

* `grpc_service` - the [gRPC service](http://www.grpc.io/docs/#defining-a-service) name, which is the combination of protobuf `package` and
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## Counters

The counters and their up to date documentation is in [server_reporter.go](server_reporter.go) and
The counters and their up to date documentation is in [server_reporter.go](server_reporter.go) and [client_reporter.go](client_reporter.go)
the respective Prometheus handler (usually `/metrics`).

For the purpose of this documentation we will only discuss `grpc_server` metrics. The `grpc_client` ones contain mirror concepts.

For simplicity, let's assume we're tracking a single server-side RPC call of [`mwitkow.testproto.TestService`](examples/testproto/test.proto),
calling the method `PingList`. The call succeeds and returns 20 messages in the stream.

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## Status

This code has been in an upstream [pull request](https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/pull/299) since August 2015. It has
served as the basis for monitoring of production gRPC micro services at [Improbable](https://improbable.io) since then.
This code has been used since August 2015 as the basis for monitoring of *production* gRPC micro services at [Improbable](https://improbable.io).

## License

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// Copyright 2016 Michal Witkowski. All Rights Reserved.
// See LICENSE for licensing terms.

// gRPC Prometheus monitoring interceptors for client-side gRPC.

package grpc_prometheus

import (
"io"

"golang.org/x/net/context"
"google.golang.org/grpc"
"google.golang.org/grpc/codes"
)

// UnaryClientInterceptor is a gRPC client-side interceptor that provides Prometheus monitoring for Unary RPCs.
func UnaryClientInterceptor(ctx context.Context, method string, req, reply interface{}, cc *grpc.ClientConn, invoker grpc.UnaryInvoker, opts ...grpc.CallOption) error {
monitor := newClientReporter(Unary, method)
monitor.SentMessage()
err := invoker(ctx, method, req, reply, cc, opts...)
if err != nil {
monitor.ReceivedMessage()
}
monitor.Handled(grpc.Code(err))
return err
}

// StreamServerInterceptor is a gRPC client-side interceptor that provides Prometheus monitoring for Streaming RPCs.
func StreamClientInterceptor(ctx context.Context, desc *grpc.StreamDesc, cc *grpc.ClientConn, method string, streamer grpc.Streamer, opts ...grpc.CallOption) (grpc.ClientStream, error) {
monitor := newClientReporter(clientStreamType(desc), method)
clientStream, err := streamer(ctx, desc, cc, method, opts...)
if err != nil {
monitor.Handled(grpc.Code(err))
return nil, err
}
return &monitoredClientStream{clientStream, monitor}, nil
}

func clientStreamType(desc *grpc.StreamDesc) grpcType {
if desc.ClientStreams && !desc.ServerStreams {
return ClientStream
} else if !desc.ClientStreams && desc.ServerStreams {
return ServerStream
}
return BidiStream
}

// monitoredClientStream wraps grpc.ClientStream allowing each Sent/Recv of message to increment counters.
type monitoredClientStream struct {
grpc.ClientStream
monitor *clientReporter
}

func (s *monitoredClientStream) SendMsg(m interface{}) error {
err := s.ClientStream.SendMsg(m)
if err == nil {
s.monitor.SentMessage()
}
return err
}

func (s *monitoredClientStream) RecvMsg(m interface{}) error {
err := s.ClientStream.RecvMsg(m)
if err == nil {
s.monitor.ReceivedMessage()
} else if err == io.EOF {
s.monitor.Handled(codes.OK)
} else {
s.monitor.Handled(grpc.Code(err))
}
return err
}
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// Copyright 2016 Michal Witkowski. All Rights Reserved.
// See LICENSE for licensing terms.

package grpc_prometheus

import (
"time"

"google.golang.org/grpc/codes"

prom "github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus"
)

var (
clientStartedCounter = prom.NewCounterVec(
prom.CounterOpts{
Namespace: "grpc",
Subsystem: "client",
Name: "started_total",
Help: "Total number of RPCs started on the client.",
}, []string{"grpc_type", "grpc_service", "grpc_method"})

clientHandledCounter = prom.NewCounterVec(
prom.CounterOpts{
Namespace: "grpc",
Subsystem: "client",
Name: "handled_total",
Help: "Total number of RPCs completed by the client, regardless of success or failure.",
}, []string{"grpc_type", "grpc_service", "grpc_method", "grpc_code"})

clientStreamMsgReceived = prom.NewCounterVec(
prom.CounterOpts{
Namespace: "grpc",
Subsystem: "client",
Name: "msg_received_total",
Help: "Total number of RPC stream messages received by the client.",
}, []string{"grpc_type", "grpc_service", "grpc_method"})

clientStreamMsgSent = prom.NewCounterVec(
prom.CounterOpts{
Namespace: "grpc",
Subsystem: "client",
Name: "msg_sent_total",
Help: "Total number of gRPC stream messages sent by the client.",
}, []string{"grpc_type", "grpc_service", "grpc_method"})

clientHandledHistogramEnabled = false
clientHandledHistogramOpts = prom.HistogramOpts{
Namespace: "grpc",
Subsystem: "client",
Name: "handling_seconds",
Help: "Histogram of response latency (seconds) of the gRPC until it is finished by the application.",
Buckets: prom.DefBuckets,
}
clientHandledHistogram *prom.HistogramVec
)

func init() {
prom.MustRegister(clientStartedCounter)
prom.MustRegister(clientHandledCounter)
prom.MustRegister(clientStreamMsgReceived)
prom.MustRegister(clientStreamMsgSent)
}

// EnableClientHandlingTimeHistogram turns on recording of handling time of RPCs.
// Histogram metrics can be very expensive for Prometheus to retain and query.
func EnableClientHandlingTimeHistogram(opts ...HistogramOption) {
for _, o := range opts {
o(&clientHandledHistogramOpts)
}
if !clientHandledHistogramEnabled {
clientHandledHistogram = prom.NewHistogramVec(
clientHandledHistogramOpts,
[]string{"grpc_type", "grpc_service", "grpc_method"},
)
prom.Register(clientHandledHistogram)
}
clientHandledHistogramEnabled = true
}

type clientReporter struct {
rpcType grpcType
serviceName string
methodName string
startTime time.Time
}

func newClientReporter(rpcType grpcType, fullMethod string) *clientReporter {
r := &clientReporter{rpcType: rpcType}
if clientHandledHistogramEnabled {
r.startTime = time.Now()
}
r.serviceName, r.methodName = splitMethodName(fullMethod)
clientStartedCounter.WithLabelValues(string(r.rpcType), r.serviceName, r.methodName).Inc()
return r
}

func (r *clientReporter) ReceivedMessage() {
clientStreamMsgReceived.WithLabelValues(string(r.rpcType), r.serviceName, r.methodName).Inc()
}

func (r *clientReporter) SentMessage() {
clientStreamMsgSent.WithLabelValues(string(r.rpcType), r.serviceName, r.methodName).Inc()
}

func (r *clientReporter) Handled(code codes.Code) {
clientHandledCounter.WithLabelValues(string(r.rpcType), r.serviceName, r.methodName, code.String()).Inc()
if clientHandledHistogramEnabled {
clientHandledHistogram.WithLabelValues(string(r.rpcType), r.serviceName, r.methodName).Observe(time.Since(r.startTime).Seconds())
}
}

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