Agent metrics are missing HELP documentation

[samjewell]

I'm trying to follow the docs here:
https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/billing-and-usage/control-prometheus-metrics-usage/changing-scrape-interval/#grafana-agent

And see the following example query:

count_over_time(scrape_samples_scraped[1m])

I'm trying to understand what the query is doing, so I open up the Metrics-browser and hover that metric name to try to find the HELP metadata for that metric. But there's none there - it's completely missing:

Normally HELP metadata for a metric would look like this:

Please can you include this metadata when you ship these metrics, so users can understand what they are? Thanks

[rfratto]

Hey Sam! This is a known issue: grafana/alloy#547. Closing as a duplicate of grafana/alloy#547.

[samjewell]

Hey @rfratto

Thanks so much for your speedy response, and sorry for the noise here - it can be hard to figure out/track down the original source of the issue.

But I wanted to share: I found that the Prometheus repo itself exposes this metric, but doesn't ship any metadata for it, so I've opened an issue on that repo instead now:
prometheus/prometheus#11884