prefix observatory metrics

[fortytw2]

would be wonderful if the exported metrics were something like observatory_* per https://prometheus.io/docs/practices/naming/ - helps a lot when you have a large number of metrics

[smon]

Hey @fortytw2, thanks for reporting!

The namespace 'observatory' gets passed to the prometheus.Desc which gets used when calling MustNewConstMetric.
See: https://github.com/Jimdo/observatory-exporter/blob/master/exporter.go#L24
https://github.com/Jimdo/observatory-exporter/blob/master/exporter.go#L56

That should do already what you're asking for. I am able to query our prometheus server that way and see the observatory_ 'prefix'..

[fortytw2]

fantastic, @shartmnn - I was a bit confused in the readme, here https://github.com/Jimdo/observatory-exporter#exposed-metrics (haven't given it a spin yet, either :s)

[smon]

I updated the readme. The metrics names now include the namespace/prefix. 631d7ca

Good catch!

[fortytw2]

sweet! 😄