How to use gin as a server to write prometheus exporter metrics

Question

This is the official prometheus golang-client example：

package main

import (
    "log"
    "net/http"

    "github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus"
    "github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus/promhttp"
)

var cpuTemp = prometheus.NewGauge(prometheus.GaugeOpts{
        Name: "cpu_temperature_celsius",
        Help: "Current temperature of the CPU.",
    })


func init() {
    // Metrics have to be registered to be exposed:
    prometheus.MustRegister(cpuTemp)
}

func main() {
    cpuTemp.Set(65.3)

    // The Handler function provides a default handler to expose metrics
    // via an HTTP server. "/metrics" is the usual endpoint for that.
    http.Handle("/metrics", promhttp.Handler())
    log.Fatal(http.ListenAndServe(":8080", nil))
}

In this code, the http server uses the promhttp library.

How to modify the metrics handler when using the gin framework? I did not find answers in the documentation.

Answer 1

We just utilize promhttp handler.

package main

import (
    "github.com/gin-gonic/gin"
    "github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus"
    "github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus/promhttp"
)

var cpuTemp = prometheus.NewGauge(prometheus.GaugeOpts{
    Name: "cpu_temperature_celsius",
    Help: "Current temperature of the CPU.",
})

func init() {
    prometheus.MustRegister(cpuTemp)
}

func prometheusHandler() gin.HandlerFunc {
    h := promhttp.Handler()

    return func(c *gin.Context) {
        h.ServeHTTP(c.Writer, c.Request)
    }
}

func main() {
    cpuTemp.Set(65.3)

    r := gin.New()

    r.GET("/", func(c *gin.Context) {
        c.JSON(200, "Hello world!")
    })

    r.GET("/metrics", prometheusHandler())

    r.Run()
}

Or we always can switch to Prometheus middleware - https://github.com/zsais/go-gin-prometheus