Custom Collector

It is possible to use a custom collector in cases you can't directly instrument the code. You will need to inherit from CustomCollector and define the collect method. Also be sure to disable the automatic registering of a newly created metric into the default registry.

from pytheus.metrics import Counter, CustomCollector
from pytheus.registry import REGISTRY

class MyCustomCollector(CustomCollector):
    def collect():
        # note that we are disabling automatic registering
        counter = Counter('name', 'desc', registry=None)
        counter.inc()
        yield counter

REGISTRY.register(MyCustomCollector())

Note

If one of the yield metrics have a name already registered with the registry you are trying to register to, the custom collector will be ignored.