Improve Startup Friendliness of Binary

[matttproud]

Easy project:

1. I'd like to have the Prometheus instance, upon start up, print out some information about itself.
   1. Current version. We presently don't have this embedded in the build.
   2. What port it is serving on, including address it is bound to.
   3. What the flags are presently set to. Maybe via http://golang.org/pkg/flag/#VisitAll?
2. I'd like some of the information from above presented on a web handler.
   1. /flags
   2. /status includes the version?

For the version, a version controlled monotonically increasing integer for build is OK or even the revision SHA1. Up to you.

[juliusv]

+1, especially the version would be helpful if you only have a binary and don't know from which source version it was built.

[matttproud]

Additional information:

• Branch name.
• Build time.
• Build hostname.
• Build user.
• Go version data.
  Am 24.04.2013 14:46 schrieb "juliusv" notifications@github.com:

+1, especially the version would be helpful if you only have a binary and
don't know from which source version it was built.

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