prometheus: Add mgmt_process_start_time_seconds metric

docs/prometheus.md

@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ Here is a list of the metrics we provide:
 - `mgmt_checkapply_total`: The number of CheckApply's that mgmt has run
 - `mgmt_failures_total`: The number of resources that have failed
 - `mgmt_failures_current`: The number of resources that have failed
+- `mgmt_process_start_time_seconds`: Start time of the process since unix epoch in seconds
 
 For each metric, you will get some extra labels:
 

prometheus/prometheus.go

@@ -36,7 +36,8 @@ const DefaultPrometheusListen = "127.0.0.1:9233"
 type Prometheus struct {
 	Listen string // the listen specification for the net/http server
 
-	checkApplyTotal *prometheus.CounterVec // total of CheckApplies that have been triggered
+	checkApplyTotal         *prometheus.CounterVec // total of CheckApplies that have been triggered
+	processStartTimeSeconds prometheus.Gauge       // process start time in seconds since unix epoch
 
 }
 
@@ -59,6 +60,16 @@ func (obj *Prometheus) Init() error {
 	)
 	prometheus.MustRegister(obj.checkApplyTotal)
 
+	obj.processStartTimeSeconds = prometheus.NewGauge(
+		prometheus.GaugeOpts{
+			Name: "mgmt_process_start_time_seconds",
+			Help: "Start time of the process since unix epoch in seconds.",
+		},
+	)
+	prometheus.MustRegister(obj.processStartTimeSeconds)
+	// directly set the processStartTimeSeconds
+	obj.processStartTimeSeconds.SetToCurrentTime()
+
 	return nil
 }
 

test/shell/prometheus-1.sh

@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ curl 127.0.0.1:9233/metrics | grep "^etcd_server_has_leader 1"
 # Check that go metrics are loaded
 curl 127.0.0.1:9233/metrics | grep "^go_goroutines [0-9]\+"
 
+# Check mgmt_process_start_time_seconds
+curl 127.0.0.1:9233/metrics | grep "^mgmt_process_start_time_seconds [0-9]\+"
+
 killall -SIGINT mgmt	# send ^C to exit mgmt
 wait $pid	# get exit status
 exit $?