The stacks_failing metric is created as a GaugeVec in the Go code, which represents a set of time series distinguished by labels (in this case, "namespace" and "name"). But each of these time series are of type gauge, so the documentation is misleading in referring to them as gaugevec (which is not a kind of metric).
I've simplified the verbiage a little, in passing.
There was also a fault in the implementation of the stacks_failing count, which I've corrected. From the commit message:
The stacks_failed metric is a set of gauges, each labelled with the
namespace and name of a Stack object. The controller sets a gauge to 1
when its Stack object is given a state of "failed", and 0 for
"succeeded". A query aggregating over the labels will get the count of
failed stacks.
However: once a Stack is deleted, the gauge remains with the last value
-- and if it was failing, it will still be included in the count. So,
this commit resets the gauge to 0 when a Stack is deleted (if it had a
state at all).
The
stacks_failingmetric is created as a GaugeVec in the Go code, which represents a set of time series distinguished by labels (in this case, "namespace" and "name"). But each of these time series are of typegauge, so the documentation is misleading in referring to them asgaugevec(which is not a kind of metric).I've simplified the verbiage a little, in passing.
There was also a fault in the implementation of the stacks_failing count, which I've corrected. From the commit message:
Addresses #399.