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@terencehonles terencehonles commented Aug 16, 2024

This change follows the implementation of rq_exporter and the prometheus client to export the RQ statistics as a Django view.

fixes: #503

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with self.summary.time():
rq_workers = GaugeMetricFamily('rq_workers', 'RQ workers', labels=['name', 'state', 'queues'])
rq_workers_success = CounterMetricFamily('rq_workers_success', 'RQ workers success count', labels=['name', 'queues'])
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Can you rename rq_workers_success to successful_job_count?

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I thought the names should all be prefixed by "rq_", but I agree this is about the jobs not the workers so I renamed it to rq_job_successful_total. I used that prefix to keep both success/failure counts to be prefixed by "rq_job_" and used "total" instead of "count" because Prometheus' naming conventions suggest that the unit should be a suffix and "total" is preferred over count:

See: https://prometheus.io/docs/practices/naming/ & prometheus/docs#2465 (comment)

rq_workers = GaugeMetricFamily('rq_workers', 'RQ workers', labels=['name', 'state', 'queues'])
rq_workers_success = CounterMetricFamily('rq_workers_success', 'RQ workers success count', labels=['name', 'queues'])
rq_workers_failed = CounterMetricFamily('rq_workers_failed', 'RQ workers fail count', labels=['name', 'queues'])
rq_workers_working_time = CounterMetricFamily('rq_workers_working_time', 'RQ workers spent seconds', labels=['name', 'queues'])
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total_working_time?

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For the same reasons in the thread #666 (comment) I went with rq_working_seconds_total

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selwin commented Dec 17, 2024

I don't mind merging this in, but could you document this feature? A simple unit test to show that this view works would also be great.

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I don't mind merging this in, but could you document this feature? A simple unit test to show that this view works would also be great.

Sorry for the delay getting this updated, but here it is. The tests took a bit of finagling to get working, but I hope this is acceptable (running tests twice).

You can let me know if you have a strong preference about the metric names, but I reviewed what I put and adjusted them to match the Prometheus naming conventions (they were close but could use some updating), and I factored in the comments you made.


with self.summary.time():
rq_workers = GaugeMetricFamily('rq_workers', 'RQ workers', labels=['name', 'state', 'queues'])
rq_workers_success = CounterMetricFamily('rq_workers_success', 'RQ workers success count', labels=['name', 'queues'])
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I thought the names should all be prefixed by "rq_", but I agree this is about the jobs not the workers so I renamed it to rq_job_successful_total. I used that prefix to keep both success/failure counts to be prefixed by "rq_job_" and used "total" instead of "count" because Prometheus' naming conventions suggest that the unit should be a suffix and "total" is preferred over count:

See: https://prometheus.io/docs/practices/naming/ & prometheus/docs#2465 (comment)

rq_workers = GaugeMetricFamily('rq_workers', 'RQ workers', labels=['name', 'state', 'queues'])
rq_workers_success = CounterMetricFamily('rq_workers_success', 'RQ workers success count', labels=['name', 'queues'])
rq_workers_failed = CounterMetricFamily('rq_workers_failed', 'RQ workers fail count', labels=['name', 'queues'])
rq_workers_working_time = CounterMetricFamily('rq_workers_working_time', 'RQ workers spent seconds', labels=['name', 'queues'])
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For the same reasons in the thread #666 (comment) I went with rq_working_seconds_total

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terencehonles commented Apr 21, 2025

It looks like the test failures are related to the fix I added in #700

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