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diff --git a/src/runtime/metrics/description.go b/src/runtime/metrics/description.go new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..bc2e0882db --- /dev/null +++ b/src/runtime/metrics/description.go @@ -0,0 +1,176 @@ +// Copyright 2020 The Go Authors. All rights reserved. +// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style +// license that can be found in the LICENSE file. + +package metrics + +// Description describes a runtime metric. +type Description struct { + // Name is the full name of the metric which includes the unit. + // + // The format of the metric may be described by the following regular expression. + // + // ^(?P<name>/[^:]+):(?P<unit>[^:*/]+(?:[*/][^:*/]+)*)$ + // + // The format splits the name into two components, separated by a colon: a path which always + // starts with a /, and a machine-parseable unit. The name may contain any valid Unicode + // codepoint in between / characters, but by convention will try to stick to lowercase + // characters and hyphens. An example of such a path might be "/memory/heap/free". + // + // The unit is by convention a series of lowercase English unit names (singular or plural) + // without prefixes delimited by '*' or '/'. The unit names may contain any valid Unicode + // codepoint that is not a delimiter. + // Examples of units might be "seconds", "bytes", "bytes/second", "cpu-seconds", + // "byte*cpu-seconds", and "bytes/second/second". + // + // A complete name might look like "/memory/heap/free:bytes". + Name string + + // Description is an English language sentence describing the metric. + Description string + + // Kind is the kind of value for this metric. + // + // The purpose of this field is to allow users to filter out metrics whose values are + // types which their application may not understand. + Kind ValueKind + + // Cumulative is whether or not the metric is cumulative. If a cumulative metric is just + // a single number, then it increases monotonically. If the metric is a distribution, + // then each bucket count increases monotonically. + // + // This flag thus indicates whether or not it's useful to compute a rate from this value. + Cumulative bool + + // StopTheWorld is whether or not the metric requires a stop-the-world + // event in order to collect it. + StopTheWorld bool +} + +// The English language descriptions below must be kept in sync with the +// descriptions of each metric in doc.go. +var allDesc = []Description{ + { + Name: "/gc/cycles/automatic:gc-cycles", + Description: "Count of completed GC cycles generated by the Go runtime.", + Kind: KindUint64, + Cumulative: true, + }, + { + Name: "/gc/cycles/forced:gc-cycles", + Description: "Count of completed forced GC cycles.", + Kind: KindUint64, + Cumulative: true, + }, + { + Name: "/gc/cycles/total:gc-cycles", + Description: "Count of all completed GC cycles.", + Kind: KindUint64, + Cumulative: true, + }, + { + Name: "/gc/heap/allocs-by-size:objects", + Description: "Distribution of all objects allocated by approximate size.", + Kind: KindFloat64Histogram, + }, + { + Name: "/gc/heap/frees-by-size:objects", + Description: "Distribution of all objects freed by approximate size.", + Kind: KindFloat64Histogram, + }, + { + Name: "/gc/heap/goal:bytes", + Description: "Heap size target for the end of the GC cycle.", + Kind: KindUint64, + }, + { + Name: "/gc/heap/objects:objects", + Description: "Number of objects, live or unswept, occupying heap memory.", + Kind: KindUint64, + }, + { + Name: "/gc/pauses:seconds", + Description: "Distribution individual GC-related stop-the-world pause latencies.", + Kind: KindFloat64Histogram, + }, + { + Name: "/memory/classes/heap/free:bytes", + Description: "Memory that is available for allocation, and may be returned to the underlying system.", + Kind: KindUint64, + }, + { + Name: "/memory/classes/heap/objects:bytes", + Description: "Memory occupied by live objects and dead objects that have not yet been collected.", + Kind: KindUint64, + }, + { + Name: "/memory/classes/heap/released:bytes", + Description: "Memory that has been returned to the underlying system.", + Kind: KindUint64, + }, + { + Name: "/memory/classes/heap/stacks:bytes", + Description: "Memory allocated from the heap that is occupied by stacks.", + Kind: KindUint64, + }, + { + Name: "/memory/classes/heap/unused:bytes", + Description: "Memory that is unavailable for allocation, but cannot be returned to the underlying system.", + Kind: KindUint64, + }, + { + Name: "/memory/classes/metadata/mcache/free:bytes", + Description: "Memory that is reserved for runtime mcache structures, but not in-use.", + Kind: KindUint64, + }, + { + Name: "/memory/classes/metadata/mcache/inuse:bytes", + Description: "Memory that is occupied by runtime mcache structures that are currently being used.", + Kind: KindUint64, + }, + { + Name: "/memory/classes/metadata/mspan/free:bytes", + Description: "Memory that is reserved for runtime mspan structures, but not in-use.", + Kind: KindUint64, + }, + { + Name: "/memory/classes/metadata/mspan/inuse:bytes", + Description: "Memory that is occupied by runtime mspan structures that are currently being used.", + Kind: KindUint64, + }, + { + Name: "/memory/classes/metadata/other:bytes", + Description: "Memory that is reserved for or used to hold runtime metadata.", + Kind: KindUint64, + }, + { + Name: "/memory/classes/os-stacks:bytes", + Description: "Stack memory allocated by the underlying operating system.", + Kind: KindUint64, + }, + { + Name: "/memory/classes/other:bytes", + Description: "Memory used by execution trace buffers, structures for debugging the runtime, finalizer and profiler specials, and more.", + Kind: KindUint64, + }, + { + Name: "/memory/classes/profiling/buckets:bytes", + Description: "Memory that is used by the stack trace hash map used for profiling.", + Kind: KindUint64, + }, + { + Name: "/memory/classes/total:bytes", + Description: "All memory mapped by the Go runtime into the current process as read-write. Note that this does not include memory mapped by code called via cgo or via the syscall package. Sum of all metrics in /memory/classes.", + Kind: KindUint64, + }, + { + Name: "/sched/goroutines:goroutines", + Description: "Count of live goroutines.", + Kind: KindUint64, + }, +} + +// All returns a slice of containing metric descriptions for all supported metrics. +func All() []Description { + return allDesc +} |