Victoriametrics Histogram

[drapail]

Hi all!
Prometheus metrics format is extremely popular and widely used not only with Prometheus as metrics storage engine, but with Victoriametrics as well.

However, Victoriametrics has a slightly different approach to defining Histograms than Prometheus (here is more info).

I thought it would be nice to have a VictoriaMetricsHistogram class in Python Prometheus client. Basically very close to the one that already exists but with bucketing logic redefined. This will allow users to use a different bucketing logic for Histograms, making them more flexible and compatible with Victoriametrics storage.

What do you think, is there a place for this feature? If you like the idea I want to be the one to contribute it 😁

[csmarchbanks]

This library will not be supporting Victoria Metrics Histograms, but there is work in progress to support Prometheus Native Histograms (see #918, as well as several PRs working on this). VictoriaMetrics will need to implement support for these: VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics#3733, it looks like via a translation layer.