Change label name for metrics generator instance#1439
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Signed-off-by: Joe Elliott <number101010@gmail.com>
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Back when I added the instance label I was trying to figure out what would be most appropriate. The only guidance I found about this was:
Label names may contain ASCII letters, numbers, as well as underscores. They must match the regex
[a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_]*. Label names beginning with __ are reserved for internal use.
https://prometheus.io/docs/concepts/data_model/
So this technically isn't allowed, but tbh I think this document is mostly aimed towards clients that are scraped by Prometheus?
An internal label conflicting with __metrics_gen_instance seems very unlikely.
Co-authored-by: Koenraad Verheyden <koenraad.verheyden@posteo.net>
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What this PR does:
The metrics generators add an
instancelabel to distinguish between metrics series. This prevents out of order issues with remote write. Unfortunatelyinstanceis a very common label name and may conflict with custom dimensions on service graphs or span metrics.This PR proposes a much more unique label name that is far less likely to conflict
__metrics_gen_instance. Feel free to suggest other options if desired.Checklist
CHANGELOG.mdupdated - the order of entries should be[CHANGE],[FEATURE],[ENHANCEMENT],[BUGFIX]