chore: allow dashes and dots in the metric label values #5451
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what
Allow dashes and dots in the metric label values.
why
A change was introduced in the commit 893ba90 to sanitize metric label names and values. This change caused dashes and dots in repository names(i.e. the base_repo label) to be converted to underscores.
This change does not comply to the Prometheus Data model specification, as it allows any unicode characters in label values, as documented here.
I also created a pull request to fix it in Tally: uber-go/tally#267, but I am hoping we can merge this PR while we wait for an approval from the tally maintainers.
tests
I couldn't figure out how to test those changes. I would appreciate some support with that.
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