Browser support

[cristianmadularu]

Hi,

Is there any way of running this lib in a browser? I see that it requires node for some of the metrics it captures (ex. memory usage), but is there a way to indicate that those should be skipped and to only extract the lib2p2 metrics?

Thanks!

[maschad]

The underlying library which this extends i.e. prom-client utilizes node's worker threads and aggregates them from the global registry, so this library is merely an extension of that with some exposed methods to make it easier to collect libp2p specific metrics as well.

There are a few alternatives for your use case:

• as mentioned here you could explore leveraging GitHub - weaveworks/promjs along with our Events API to capture some of these metrics.
• Using Push Metrics , the Prometheus Pushgateway allows you to push time series from short-lived service-level batch jobs to an intermediary job which Prometheus can scrape. So you could push those metrics to the gateway and prometheus would scrape them as usual.

But I don't think extending this library would be the easiest way to achieve your goal.