Allow ingested metrics to be relabeled.

The main purpose of this is to allow for blacklisting
of expensive metrics as a tactical option.
It could also find uses for renaming and removing labels
from federation.

config/config.go

@@ -204,8 +204,10 @@ type ScrapeConfig struct {
 	FileSDConfigs []*FileSDConfig `yaml:"file_sd_configs,omitempty"`
 	// List of Consul service discovery configurations.
 	ConsulSDConfigs []*ConsulSDConfig `yaml:"consul_sd_configs,omitempty"`
-	// List of relabel configurations.
+	// List of target relabel configurations.
 	RelabelConfigs []*RelabelConfig `yaml:"relabel_configs,omitempty"`
+	// List of metric relabel configurations.
+	MetricRelabelConfigs []*RelabelConfig `yaml:"metric_relabel_configs,omitempty"`
 
 	// Catches all undefined fields and must be empty after parsing.
 	XXX map[string]interface{} `yaml:",inline"`

config/config_test.go

@@ -114,6 +114,14 @@ var expectedConf = &Config{
 					Action:       RelabelDrop,
 				},
 			},
+			MetricRelabelConfigs: []*RelabelConfig{
+				{
+					SourceLabels: clientmodel.LabelNames{"__name__"},
+					Regex:        &Regexp{*regexp.MustCompile("expensive_metric.*$")},
+					Separator:    ";",
+					Action:       RelabelDrop,
+				},
+			},
 		},
 		{
 			JobName: "service-y",

config/testdata/conf.good.yml

@@ -71,6 +71,10 @@ scrape_configs:
     regex:         (.*)some-[regex]$
     action:        drop
 
+  metric_relabel_configs:
+  - source_labels: [__name__]
+    regex:         expensive_metric.*$
+    action:        drop
 
 - job_name: service-y
 

retrieval/target.go

@@ -151,6 +151,8 @@ type Target struct {
 	scraperStopped chan struct{}
 	// Channel to buffer ingested samples.
 	ingestedSamples chan clientmodel.Samples
+	// Metric relabel configuration.
+	metricRelabelConfigs []*config.RelabelConfig
 
 	// Mutex protects the members below.
 	sync.RWMutex
@@ -212,6 +214,7 @@ func (t *Target) Update(cfg *config.ScrapeConfig, baseLabels, metaLabels clientm
 	if _, ok := t.baseLabels[clientmodel.InstanceLabel]; !ok {
 		t.baseLabels[clientmodel.InstanceLabel] = clientmodel.LabelValue(t.InstanceIdentifier())
 	}
+	t.metricRelabelConfigs = cfg.MetricRelabelConfigs
 }
 
 func (t *Target) String() string {
@@ -361,6 +364,16 @@ func (t *Target) scrape(sampleAppender storage.SampleAppender) (err error) {
 	for samples := range t.ingestedSamples {
 		for _, s := range samples {
 			s.Metric.MergeFromLabelSet(baseLabels, clientmodel.ExporterLabelPrefix)
+			labels, err := Relabel(clientmodel.LabelSet(s.Metric), t.metricRelabelConfigs...)
+			if err != nil {
+				log.Errorf("error while relabeling metric %s of instance %s: ", s.Metric, t.url, err)
+				continue
+			}
+			// Check if the timeseries was dropped.
+			if labels == nil {
+				continue
+			}
+			s.Metric = clientmodel.Metric(labels)
 			sampleAppender.Append(s)
 		}
 	}

retrieval/target_test.go

@@ -20,12 +20,14 @@ import (
 	"net/http/httptest"
 	"net/url"
 	"reflect"
+	"regexp"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
 	"time"
 
 	clientmodel "github.com/prometheus/client_golang/model"
 
+	"github.com/prometheus/prometheus/config"
 	"github.com/prometheus/prometheus/util/httputil"
 )
 
@@ -77,6 +79,77 @@ func TestTargetScrapeWithFullChannel(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+func TestTargetScrapeMetricRelabelConfigs(t *testing.T) {
+	server := httptest.NewServer(
+		http.HandlerFunc(
+			func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+				w.Header().Set("Content-Type", `text/plain; version=0.0.4`)
+				w.Write([]byte("test_metric_drop 0\n"))
+				w.Write([]byte("test_metric_relabel 1\n"))
+			},
+		),
+	)
+	defer server.Close()
+	testTarget := newTestTarget(server.URL, 10*time.Millisecond, clientmodel.LabelSet{})
+	testTarget.metricRelabelConfigs = []*config.RelabelConfig{
+		{
+			SourceLabels: clientmodel.LabelNames{"__name__"},
+			Regex:        &config.Regexp{*regexp.MustCompile(".*drop.*")},
+			Action:       config.RelabelDrop,
+		},
+		{
+			SourceLabels: clientmodel.LabelNames{"__name__"},
+			Regex:        &config.Regexp{*regexp.MustCompile(".*(relabel|up).*")},
+			TargetLabel:  "foo",
+			Replacement:  "bar",
+			Action:       config.RelabelReplace,
+		},
+	}
+
+	appender := &collectResultAppender{}
+	testTarget.scrape(appender)
+
+	// Remove variables part of result.
+	for _, sample := range appender.result {
+		sample.Timestamp = 0
+		sample.Value = 0
+	}
+
+	expected := []*clientmodel.Sample{
+		{
+			Metric: clientmodel.Metric{
+				clientmodel.MetricNameLabel: "test_metric_relabel",
+				"foo": "bar",
+				clientmodel.InstanceLabel: clientmodel.LabelValue(testTarget.url.Host),
+			},
+			Timestamp: 0,
+			Value:     0,
+		},
+		// The metrics about the scrape are not affected.
+		{
+			Metric: clientmodel.Metric{
+				clientmodel.MetricNameLabel: scrapeHealthMetricName,
+				clientmodel.InstanceLabel:   clientmodel.LabelValue(testTarget.url.Host),
+			},
+			Timestamp: 0,
+			Value:     0,
+		},
+		{
+			Metric: clientmodel.Metric{
+				clientmodel.MetricNameLabel: scrapeDurationMetricName,
+				clientmodel.InstanceLabel:   clientmodel.LabelValue(testTarget.url.Host),
+			},
+			Timestamp: 0,
+			Value:     0,
+		},
+	}
+
+	if !appender.result.Equal(expected) {
+		t.Fatalf("Expected and actual samples not equal. Expected: %s, actual: %s", expected, appender.result)
+	}
+
+}
+
 func TestTargetRecordScrapeHealth(t *testing.T) {
 	testTarget := newTestTarget("example.url:80", 0, clientmodel.LabelSet{clientmodel.JobLabel: "testjob"})