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+# Created by .ignore support plugin (hsz.mobi)
+### JetBrains template
+# Covers JetBrains IDEs: IntelliJ, RubyMine, PhpStorm, AppCode, PyCharm, CLion, Android Studio and Webstorm
+# Reference: https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/articles/206544839
+
+# User-specific stuff:
+.idea/**/workspace.xml
+.idea/**/tasks.xml
+.idea/dictionaries
+
+# Sensitive or high-churn files:
+.idea/**/dataSources/
+.idea/**/dataSources.ids
+.idea/**/dataSources.xml
+.idea/**/dataSources.local.xml
+.idea/**/sqlDataSources.xml
+.idea/**/dynamic.xml
+.idea/**/uiDesigner.xml
+
+# Gradle:
+.idea/**/gradle.xml
+.idea/**/libraries
+
+# CMake
+cmake-build-debug/
+
+# Mongo Explorer plugin:
+.idea/**/mongoSettings.xml
+
+## File-based project format:
+*.iws
+
+## Plugin-specific files:
+
+# IntelliJ
+out/
+
+# mpeltonen/sbt-idea plugin
+.idea_modules/
+
+# JIRA plugin
+atlassian-ide-plugin.xml
+
+# Cursive Clojure plugin
+.idea/replstate.xml
+
+# Crashlytics plugin (for Android Studio and IntelliJ)
+com_crashlytics_export_strings.xml
+crashlytics.properties
+crashlytics-build.properties
+fabric.properties
+### Python template
+# Byte-compiled / optimized / DLL files
+__pycache__/
+*.py[cod]
+*$py.class
+
+# C extensions
+*.so
+
+# Distribution / packaging
+.Python
+build/
+develop-eggs/
+dist/
+downloads/
+eggs/
+.eggs/
+lib/
+lib64/
+parts/
+sdist/
+var/
+wheels/
+*.egg-info/
+.installed.cfg
+*.egg
+
+# PyInstaller
+#  Usually these files are written by a python script from a template
+#  before PyInstaller builds the exe, so as to inject date/other infos into it.
+*.manifest
+*.spec
+
+# Installer logs
+pip-log.txt
+pip-delete-this-directory.txt
+
+# Unit test / coverage reports
+htmlcov/
+.tox/
+.coverage
+.coverage.*
+.cache
+nosetests.xml
+coverage.xml
+*.cover
+.hypothesis/
+
+# Translations
+*.mo
+*.pot
+
+# Django stuff:
+*.log
+local_settings.py
+
+# Flask stuff:
+instance/
+.webassets-cache
+
+# Scrapy stuff:
+.scrapy
+
+# Sphinx documentation
+docs/_build/
+
+# PyBuilder
+target/
+
+# Jupyter Notebook
+.ipynb_checkpoints
+
+# pyenv
+.python-version
+
+# celery beat schedule file
+celerybeat-schedule
+
+# SageMath parsed files
+*.sage.py
+
+# Environments
+.env
+.venv
+env/
+venv/
+ENV/
+
+# Spyder project settings
+.spyderproject
+.spyproject
+
+# Rope project settings
+.ropeproject
+
+# mkdocs documentation
+/site
+
+# mypy
+.mypy_cache/
+
+.gitignore
+Dockerfile
+LICENSE
+README.md
+.circleci/
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diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
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+FROM python:3.6-alpine3.6
+
+WORKDIR /usr/src/app
+
+COPY requirements.txt ./
+RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt
+
+COPY . .
+
+CMD [ "python", "./app.py" ]
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+# Example Prometheus Instrumentation for Python
+
+This is a quick example of how to instrument your Flask-based Python app
+with the Python Prometheus client.
+
+This project is built with:
+
+- Python 3.6.x
+
+And is packaged as a Docker container. The two top level dependencies are:
+
+- Flask==0.12.2
+- prometheus-client==0.0.21
+
+See the [requirements file](./requirements.txt) for more details.
+
+## Prometheus
+
+[Prometheus](https://prometheus.io/) is a
+[Cloud Native](https://winderresearch.com/what-is-cloud-native/?utm_source=github&utm_medium=web&utm_content=link)
+monitoring application.
+
+To instrument our Python code we need to manipulate the metrics each
+time a new HTTP request is received.
+
+See [the application](./app.py) for more details.
+
+## Building
+
+This project is automatically built by Docker Automated Builds.
+
+To build manually:
+
+`docker build -t python-app .`
+
+## Running
+
+Simply open port 5000 when running as a container:
+
+`docker run -p 5000:5000 --name python-app philwinder/prometheus-python`
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diff --git a/app.py b/app.py
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+import random
+import time
+
+from flask import Flask, render_template_string
+from prometheus_client import generate_latest, REGISTRY, Counter, Gauge, Histogram
+
+app = Flask(__name__)
+
+# A counter to count the total number of HTTP requests
+REQUESTS = Counter('http_requests_total', 'Total HTTP Requests (count)', ['method', 'endpoint'])
+
+# A gauge (i.e. goes up and down) to monitor the total number of in progress requests
+IN_PROGRESS = Gauge('http_requests_inprogress', 'Number of in progress HTTP requests')
+
+# A histogram to measure the latency of the HTTP requests
+TIMINGS = Histogram('http_requests_latency_seconds', 'HTTP request latency (seconds)')
+
+
+# Standard Flask route stuff.
+@app.route('/')
+# Helper annotation to measure how long a method takes and save as a histogram metric.
+@TIMINGS.time()
+# Helper annotation to increment a gauge when entering the method and decrementing when leaving.
+@IN_PROGRESS.track_inprogress()
+def hello_world():
+    REQUESTS.labels(method='GET', endpoint="/").inc()  # Increment the counter
+    return 'Hello, World!'
+
+
+@app.route('/slow')
+@TIMINGS.time()
+@IN_PROGRESS.track_inprogress()
+def slow_request():
+    REQUESTS.labels(method='GET', endpoint="/slow").inc()
+    v = random.random()
+    time.sleep(v)
+    return render_template_string('<h1>Wow, that took {{v}} s!</h1>', v=v)
+
+
+@app.route('/hello/<name>')
+@IN_PROGRESS.track_inprogress()
+@TIMINGS.time()
+def index(name):
+    REQUESTS.labels(method='GET', endpoint="/hello/<name>").inc()
+    return render_template_string('<b>Hello {{name}}</b>!', name=name)
+
+
+@app.route('/metrics')
+@IN_PROGRESS.track_inprogress()
+@TIMINGS.time()
+def metrics():
+    REQUESTS.labels(method='GET', endpoint="/metrics").inc()
+    return generate_latest(REGISTRY)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    app.run(host='0.0.0.0')
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
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+click==6.7
+Flask==0.12.2
+itsdangerous==0.24
+Jinja2==2.10
+MarkupSafe==1.0
+prometheus-client==0.0.21
+Werkzeug==0.12.2