OpenMetrics 2.0 Working Group just started!

[Bartłomiej Płotka]

Hi,

We started a working group towards OpenMetrics 2.0. See the details and discussions around it here. Feel free to join us!

See the similar announcement on Prometheus-dev mailing list.

Kind Regards,

Bartek Plotka @bwplotka

[lei...@gmail.com]

In which way do you want these proposals to go? I'm an old IETF geek,
I sort of prefer mail lists, other options for discussions are fine -
whatever you do. I'm unlikely to come to the WG meeting except
virtually.

Ihve long history with network engineering, software dev, monitoring,
linux and open source. Probably best known for nagios monitoring
contributions but I mostly do cloud apps now. Open-metrics is a
de-facto standard for model app monitoring though there are a lot of
proprietary solutions. The existing standard is SNMP and it doesn't
fit the modern app model.

I'm not proposing major changes or something that would require query
support I think. Severity thresholds are useful and would allow to
re-map existing data. They would only work with some data types like
gauge. Could be open to discussing how to do it, but that is what I
had in mind for it. There is an existing _info string defined in
open-metrics 1.0 but it is defined as "SHOULD NOT CHANGE". I'm
proposing an information only status message that can be displayed to
the user about current status, but not necessarily queried and
searched for separately from existing metrics. In my opinion these are
not major changes and would allow to remap other monitoring data to
open-metrics and potentially for use by prometheus with some
extensions.