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by morelisp 1602 days ago
> Prometheus scrapes the same text format as OpenMetrics 1.0

I find the GP's claims weird - I've written a relative ton of collectors, exporters, and translators and the format is pretty OK, not worse than most that came before it and better than lots - but I think this relationship is backwards. Prometheus "scrapes OpenMetrics" because OpenMetrics was formal documentation of what Prometheus was already doing for years.

I would not have preferred JSON. That an exposed metric is also a query is also pretty close to a schematic definition is nice.