Collecting custom metrics using python client in a django application

[arijit desai]

Hi,

I am trying to monitor a Django based application running on docker. I am using django_prometheus library for models and databases but for application level metrics, i aam using python_client. But some how these metrics dont get updated. The counters dont increment and I only see value 0.0 in /metrics page. 

Any help would be appreciated.

Regards,
Arijit

[Jiacai Liu]

How did you initialize metric and what kinds of type do you use?

On 2021-03-03T05:57:42+0800 arijit desai <desai...@gmail.com>
writes:

[arijit desai]

So I created a python file named metrics.py and initialized the following metrics.

metrics.py

from prometheus_client import Counter, Histogram

walks_started = Counter('walks_started', 'number of walks started')

walk_distance = Histogram('walk_distance', 'distribution of distance walked')

and in views.py

from .metrics import walk_distance, walks_started

@walk_distance.time()

def request(self):

     walks_started.inc()

     --------

But in /metrics page I see a zero for all the buckets and also for the counter.

Regards,
Arijit