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Statistics: Rewrite statistics backends to use OpenMetrics The metric subsystem of Prosody has had some shortcomings from the perspective of the current state-of-the-art in metric observability. The OpenMetrics standard [0] is a formalization of the data model (and serialization format) of the well-known and widely-used Prometheus [1] software stack. The previous stats subsystem of Prosody did not map well to that format (see e.g. [2] and [3]); the key reason is that it was trying to do too much math on its own ([2]) while lacking first-class support for "families" of metrics ([3]) and structured metric metadata (despite the `extra` argument to metrics, there was no standard way of representing common things like "tags" or "labels"). Even though OpenMetrics has grown from the Prometheus world of monitoring, it maps well to other popular monitoring stacks such as: - InfluxDB (labels can be mapped to tags and fields as necessary) - Carbon/Graphite (labels can be attached to the metric name with dot-separation) - StatsD (see graphite when assuming that graphite is used as backend, which is the default) The util.statsd module has been ported to use the OpenMetrics model as a proof of concept. An implementation which exposes the util.statistics backend data as Prometheus metrics is ready for publishing in prosody-modules (most likely as mod_openmetrics_prometheus to avoid breaking existing 0.11 deployments). At the same time, the previous measure()-based API had one major advantage: It is really simple and easy to use without requiring lots of knowledge about OpenMetrics or similar concepts. For that reason as well as compatibility with existing code, it is preserved and may even be extended in the future. However, code relying on the `stats-updated` event as well as `get_stats` from `statsmanager` will break because the data model has changed completely; in case of `stats-updated`, the code will simply not run (as the event was renamed in order to avoid conflicts); the `get_stats` function has been removed completely (so it will cause a traceback when it is attempted to be used). Note that the measure_*_event methods have been removed from the module API. I was unable to find any uses or documentation and thus deemed they should not be ported. Re-implementation is possible when necessary. [0]: https://openmetrics.io/ [1]: https://prometheus.io/ [2]: #959 [3]: #960

-- Prosody IM
-- Copyright (C) 2008-2015 Matthew Wild
-- Copyright (C) 2008-2015 Waqas Hussain
--
-- This project is MIT/X11 licensed. Please see the
-- COPYING file in the source package for more information.
--

-- Small ringbuffer library (i.e. an efficient FIFO queue with a size limit)
-- (because unbounded dynamically-growing queues are a bad thing...)

local have_utable, utable = pcall(require, "util.table"); -- For pre-allocation of table

local function new(size, allow_wrapping)
	-- Head is next insert, tail is next read
	local head, tail = 1, 1;
	local items = 0; -- Number of stored items
	local t = have_utable and utable.create(size, 0) or {}; -- Table to hold items
	--luacheck: ignore 212/self
	return {
		_items = t;
		size = size;
		count = function (self) return items; end;
		push = function (self, item)
			if items >= size then
				if allow_wrapping then
					tail = (tail%size)+1; -- Advance to next oldest item
					items = items - 1;
				else
					return nil, "queue full";
				end
			end
			t[head] = item;
			items = items + 1;
			head = (head%size)+1;
			return true;
		end;
		pop = function (self)
			if items == 0 then
				return nil;
			end
			local item;
			item, t[tail] = t[tail], 0;
			tail = (tail%size)+1;
			items = items - 1;
			return item;
		end;
		peek = function (self)
			if items == 0 then
				return nil;
			end
			return t[tail];
		end;
		replace = function (self, data)
			if items == 0 then
				return self:push(data);
			end
			t[tail] = data;
			return true;
		end;
		items = function (self)
			return function (_, pos)
				if pos >= items then
					return nil;
				end
				local read_pos = tail + pos;
				if read_pos > self.size then
					read_pos = (read_pos%size);
				end
				return pos+1, t[read_pos];
			end, self, 0;
		end;
		consume = function (self)
			return self.pop, self;
		end;
	};
end

return {
	new = new;
};