Exporters: implement Prometheus exporter

[fbogsany]

Exporters: implement Prometheus exporter

[fbogsany]

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification#259 metrics SDK spec moved to Alpha 0.3, so moving the exporter as well.

[pinglamb]

I am trying to study this but not sure how to begin.

I have a few questions in mind:

• Is the metric api implementation ready?
• So with the prometheus exporter, does it mean that we have to map the OpenTelemetry entities (counter, measure, ...) to corresponding prometheus implementations (counter, gauge, ...)?
• How do library users specify that they want to use prometheus exporter, through some sort of configuration?
• From my understanding, prometheus expects metric provider to expose http endpoint for scraping, so how should we hook that up with rack servers using this library, as a middleware?

[fbogsany]

We don’t yet have an implementation of Metrics in the SDK. We need that before we can start work on a Prometheus (or statsd) exporter.

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