OTLP Prometheus Translator

A Go library for converting OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) metric and attribute names to Prometheus-compliant formats.

Part of the Prometheus ecosystem, following the OpenTelemetry to Prometheus compatibility specification.

Features

• Metric Name and Label Translation: Convert OTLP metric names and attributes to Prometheus-compliant format
• Unit Handling: Translate OTLP units to Prometheus unit conventions
• Type-Aware Suffixes: Optionally append _total, _ratio based on metric type
• Namespace Support: Add configurable namespace prefixes
• UTF-8 Support: Choose between Prometheus legacy scheme compliant metric/label names ([a-zA-Z0-9:_]) or untranslated metric/label names

Installation

go get github.com/prometheus/otlptranslator

Quick Start

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "github.com/prometheus/otlptranslator"
)

func main() {
    // Create a metric namer using traditional Prometheus name translation, with suffixes added and UTF-8 disallowed.
    namer := otlptranslator.MetricNamer{
        Namespace:          "myapp",
        WithMetricSuffixes: true,
        UTF8Allowed:        false,
    }

    // Translate OTLP metric to Prometheus format
    metric := otlptranslator.Metric{
        Name: "http.server.request.duration",
        Unit: "s",
        Type: otlptranslator.MetricTypeHistogram,
    }
    fmt.Println(namer.Build(metric)) // Output: myapp_http_server_request_duration_seconds

    // Translate label names
    labelNamer := otlptranslator.LabelNamer{UTF8Allowed: false}
    fmt.Println(labelNamer.Build("http.method")) // Output: http_method
}

Usage Examples

Metric Name Translation

namer := otlptranslator.MetricNamer{WithMetricSuffixes: true, UTF8Allowed: false}

// Counter gets _total suffix
counter := otlptranslator.Metric{
    Name: "requests.count", Unit: "1", Type: otlptranslator.MetricTypeMonotonicCounter,
}
fmt.Println(namer.Build(counter)) // requests_count_total

// Gauge with unit conversion
gauge := otlptranslator.Metric{
    Name: "memory.usage", Unit: "By", Type: otlptranslator.MetricTypeGauge,
}
fmt.Println(namer.Build(gauge)) // memory_usage_bytes

// Dimensionless gauge gets _ratio suffix
ratio := otlptranslator.Metric{
    Name: "cpu.utilization", Unit: "1", Type: otlptranslator.MetricTypeGauge,
}
fmt.Println(namer.Build(ratio)) // cpu_utilization_ratio

Label Translation

labelNamer := otlptranslator.LabelNamer{UTF8Allowed: false}

labelNamer.Build("http.method")           // http_method
labelNamer.Build("123invalid")            // key_123invalid  
labelNamer.Build("_private")              // key_private
labelNamer.Build("__reserved__")          // __reserved__ (preserved)
labelNamer.Build("label@with$symbols")    // label_with_symbols

Unit Translation

unitNamer := otlptranslator.UnitNamer{UTF8Allowed: false}

unitNamer.Build("s")           // seconds
unitNamer.Build("By")          // bytes
unitNamer.Build("requests/s")  // requests_per_second
unitNamer.Build("1")           // "" (dimensionless)

Configuration Options

// Prometheus-compliant mode - supports [a-zA-Z0-9:_]
compliantNamer := otlptranslator.MetricNamer{UTF8Allowed: false, WithMetricSuffixes: true}

// Transparent pass-through mode, aka "NoTranslation"
utf8Namer := otlptranslator.MetricNamer{UTF8Allowed: true, WithMetricSuffixes: false}

// With namespace and suffixes
productionNamer := otlptranslator.MetricNamer{
    Namespace:          "myservice",
    WithMetricSuffixes: true,
    UTF8Allowed:        false,
}

License

Licensed under the Apache License 2.0 - see the LICENSE file for details.