Metrics exporter

[alexrudd]

Hi,

We've been using the trace exporter and it's been working great, thank you! We were wondering if there are plans to implement a metrics exporter too?

Our use case is for exporting runtime metrics such as the contents of MemStats. Currently we're attaching all those values to every span using WithDynamicField but that seems wrong.

Thanks

[lizthegrey]

WithDynamicField actually is exactly what we do at Honeycomb for observing those gauges. It's free since we charge by the event, not by the field.

In the long term, yeah, it would be neat to have a push dataset that receives counter/gauge values once per minute etc. -- so we'll put this on our requested feature backlog.

[alexrudd]

Thanks, we'll keep using WithDynamicField but it's good to know metrics support might be coming in the future :)

[JamieDanielson]

This project is set to sunset - see issue #105. If this exporter is still actively used, please comment on the sunset issue.