Native histograms without observations and with a zero threshold of
zero look the same as classic histograms in the protobuf exposition
format. According to
https://github.com/prometheus/client_golang/issues/1127 , the idea is
to add a no-op span to those histograms to mark them as native
histograms. This commit enables Prometheus to detect that no-op span
and adds a doc comment to the proto spec describing the behavior.
Signed-off-by: beorn7 <beorn@grafana.com>
Native histograms without a zero threshold aren't federated properly.
This adds a test to prove the specific failure mode, which is that
histograms with a zero threshold of zero are federated as classic
histograms.
The underlying reason is that the protobuf parser identifies a native
histogram by detecting a zero bucket or by detecting integer buckets.
Therefore, a float histogram with a zero threshold of zero and an
unpopulated zero bucket falls through the cracks (no integer buckets,
no zero bucket).
This commit also addse a test case for the latter.
Signed-off-by: beorn7 <beorn@grafana.com>
So far, if a target exposes a histogram with both classic and native
buckets, a native-histogram enabled Prometheus would ignore the
classic buckets. With the new scrape config option
`scrape_classic_histograms` set, both buckets will be ingested,
creating all the series of a classic histogram in parallel to the
native histogram series. For example, a histogram `foo` would create a
native histogram series `foo` and classic series called `foo_sum`,
`foo_count`, and `foo_bucket`.
This feature can be used in a migration strategy from classic to
native histograms, where it is desired to have a transition period
during which both native and classic histograms are present.
Note that two bugs in classic histogram parsing were found and fixed
as a byproduct of testing the new feature:
1. Series created from classic _gauge_ histograms didn't get the
_sum/_count/_bucket prefix set.
2. Values of classic _float_ histograms weren't parsed properly.
Signed-off-by: beorn7 <beorn@grafana.com>
