We will want to put plugin id in a control id, which is sent to an app
and then to GUI. When we get a control request from GUI, we will want
to extract the plugin ID from the control name. To do it unambiguously
we need some separator made of chars that are not allowed in a plugin
name. This is to avoid the situation when there are two plugins:
"Plugin" and "PluginFoo". "Plugin" exposes a control named
"FooControl" and "PluginFoo" exposes a control named "Control". Faking
the control names which will be sent to the app would result in two
"PluginFooControl".
One possible option for plugin ID and control name separator would be
"/", but that won't work, since the request sent from GUI to the app
to <probe>/<node>/<control> would actually be
<probe>/<node>/<plugin>/<control> and as such wouldn't match the URL
template in RegisterControlRoutes().
* Helps reduce garbage (MakeMetric() now takes a slice and there's a shorter version MakeSingletonMetric())
* Fixes bug computing Max (Min) in samples since using MakeMetric()
was causing a default Max/Min of zero.
* Simplifies code a bit
Also:
* Remove Gob encoder/decoder
* Stop using custom encoders/decoders for Timestamps (both ugorji and the Golang JSON codecs use nanosecond precision).
* Use idiomatic way to check for existence in metric.LastSample()
* Rework Scope metrics according to Prometheus conventions.
- counters should end with _total
- elaborated and added units to help strings
- recommended for cache hit/miss metrics: track only the total and the
hits and in separate metrics, since the most common query will be
"hits / total"
- track all times in seconds (base units), which has become the standard
recommendation
- other small changes
There could be more changes that would require more thinking (what
dimensions to use, summaries vs. histograms, etc.), but this is probably
enough controversial material already :)
* Use timeRequestStatus() in sqs_control_router.go.
This closes a small window where we might produce reports which contain flows that are NEW but have never seen an UPDATE, which can potentially be invalid.
