prometheus-metrics

[package]
name = "example-prometheus-metrics"
version = "0.1.0"
edition = "2021"
publish = false

[dependencies]
axum = { path = "../../axum" }
metrics = { version = "0.23", default-features = false }
metrics-exporter-prometheus = { version = "0.15", default-features = false }
tokio = { version = "1.0", features = ["full"] }
tracing = "0.1"
tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3", features = ["env-filter"] }
//! Someday tower-http will hopefully have a metrics middleware, until then you can track
//! metrics like this.
//!
//! Run with
//!
//! ```not_rust
//! cargo run -p example-prometheus-metrics
//! ```

use axum::{
    extract::{MatchedPath, Request},
    middleware::{self, Next},
    response::IntoResponse,
    routing::get,
    Router,
};
use metrics_exporter_prometheus::{Matcher, PrometheusBuilder, PrometheusHandle};
use std::{
    future::ready,
    time::{Duration, Instant},
};
use tracing_subscriber::{layer::SubscriberExt, util::SubscriberInitExt};

fn metrics_app() -> Router {
    let recorder_handle = setup_metrics_recorder();
    Router::new().route("/metrics", get(move || ready(recorder_handle.render())))
}

fn main_app() -> Router {
    Router::new()
        .route("/fast", get(|| async {}))
        .route(
            "/slow",
            get(|| async {
                tokio::time::sleep(Duration::from_secs(1)).await;
            }),
        )
        .route_layer(middleware::from_fn(track_metrics))
}

async fn start_main_server() {
    let app = main_app();

    let listener = tokio::net::TcpListener::bind("127.0.0.1:3000")
        .await
        .unwrap();
    tracing::debug!("listening on {}", listener.local_addr().unwrap());
    axum::serve(listener, app).await.unwrap();
}

async fn start_metrics_server() {
    let app = metrics_app();

    // NOTE: expose metrics endpoint on a different port
    let listener = tokio::net::TcpListener::bind("127.0.0.1:3001")
        .await
        .unwrap();
    tracing::debug!("listening on {}", listener.local_addr().unwrap());
    axum::serve(listener, app).await.unwrap();
}

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() {
    tracing_subscriber::registry()
        .with(
            tracing_subscriber::EnvFilter::try_from_default_env().unwrap_or_else(|_| {
                format!("{}=debug,tower_http=debug", env!("CARGO_CRATE_NAME")).into()
            }),
        )
        .with(tracing_subscriber::fmt::layer())
        .init();

    // The `/metrics` endpoint should not be publicly available. If behind a reverse proxy, this
    // can be achieved by rejecting requests to `/metrics`. In this example, a second server is
    // started on another port to expose `/metrics`.
    let (_main_server, _metrics_server) = tokio::join!(start_main_server(), start_metrics_server());
}

fn setup_metrics_recorder() -> PrometheusHandle {
    const EXPONENTIAL_SECONDS: &[f64] = &[
        0.005, 0.01, 0.025, 0.05, 0.1, 0.25, 0.5, 1.0, 2.5, 5.0, 10.0,
    ];

    PrometheusBuilder::new()
        .set_buckets_for_metric(
            Matcher::Full("http_requests_duration_seconds".to_string()),
            EXPONENTIAL_SECONDS,
        )
        .unwrap()
        .install_recorder()
        .unwrap()
}

async fn track_metrics(req: Request, next: Next) -> impl IntoResponse {
    let start = Instant::now();
    let path = if let Some(matched_path) = req.extensions().get::<MatchedPath>() {
        matched_path.as_str().to_owned()
    } else {
        req.uri().path().to_owned()
    };
    let method = req.method().clone();

    let response = next.run(req).await;

    let latency = start.elapsed().as_secs_f64();
    let status = response.status().as_u16().to_string();

    let labels = [
        ("method", method.to_string()),
        ("path", path),
        ("status", status),
    ];

    metrics::counter!("http_requests_total", &labels).increment(1);
    metrics::histogram!("http_requests_duration_seconds", &labels).record(latency);

    response
}

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