Expose collecting metrics as separate functionality

[vhatsura]

Hey, @djluck. First of all, a huge thanks to your effort to make such great library. This is what was missing in dotnet community.

My question is quite simple: do you have plans to expose metrics collector functionality as a separate package? It will allow integrate such functionality with various profiling, metrics and performance monitoring tools.
I will glad to hear your thoughts about it.

[djluck]

Hey @vhatsura,

It would definitely be possible but it would require a bit of work on my part. Currently, the event consumption code is tightly coupled to some of the concepts of prometheus (histograms, labels + pull-based metrics to name a few). I'll have a think about how best to split this out.

[vhatsura]

It's nice hear. If you need some help I will be appreciated to help you with such stuff.

[djluck]

Thanks for the offer but I can't make any guarantees about when this work might even begin, let alone be completed. To do this right will take time.

[seif]

+1 to this, we are using graphite for metrics and couldn't find any implementation of those collectors other than in this repo. Would be nice if the collectors were reusable somehow.

[djluck]

I don't know if this helps you but as of V4, event collection and metrics production has now been separated- might be of use to you if I published the event collection as a separate library.