Expand Prometheus Metrics to state device/folder names

[simonmicro]

Expand Prometheus Metrics to state device/folder names

[SophisticaSean]

@SophisticaSean Thank you very much about your motivation to pick this up! Mostly, I just would like to see the device's assigned name or (in case of folders) the assigned name from the web-ui. This would make identifying the metrics much easier!

But, as you ask... Maybe there is more metadata available? Could you compile a short list of ideas (be it just code references), where I could get an idea from what to suggest?

Thanks in advance!

Yeah I'll take a look. My cursory glance revealed that this metric output takes the device ID's in as an argument, so we'd have to do some reworking to expose more data to the resulting prometheus metrics output.

[calmh]

I suspect there are a number of places exporting things by ID where the name is not readily available. An other option could be to expose an info metric, like a gauge with ID, name, type labels and just the value 1 for each folder & device. You can then join with that in the promql query.

[simonmicro]

@SophisticaSean Thank you very much about your motivation to pick this up! Mostly, I just would like to see the device's assigned name or (in case of folders) the assigned name from the web-ui. This would make identifying the metrics much easier!

But, as you ask... Maybe there is more metadata available? Could you compile a short list of ideas (be it just code references), where I could get an idea from what to suggest?

Thanks in advance!

[SophisticaSean]

@simonmicro could you provide an example of what device metadata you'd like to see exposed with those metrics? I'm thinking about giving this a shot. :)

[simonmicro]

@calmh Yes! This would also be a solution. Just presenting some metadata-metrics, which present the labels for the folder / device ids or even more metadata (last seen, connect time, connect ip, ...). Good idea!