Hey, Not sure if this already exists or not as I couldn't find it in the docs or in the code but the proposal/feature request is as follows:
Allow *CollectorRegistry* to have a method which can be used to fetch/get registered metrics by: - Metric Name - Metric Type Currently, if you try to define/use the same metric again someplace else in code to use/push a new metric value out the default *registry=REGISTRY *( here <https://github.com/prometheus/client_python/blob/2ff532839fd54d7c686837e5955ea0ff9abfab76/prometheus_client/metrics.py#L119C58-L119C66> ) would try to create the metric/collector again (here <https://github.com/prometheus/client_python/blob/2ff532839fd54d7c686837e5955ea0ff9abfab76/prometheus_client/metrics.py#L142>). Moreover, the only way to check if a Collector/Metric is defined on the Registry is to lookup *_names_to_collectors *which ideally shouldn't be accessed by clients directly. In the current structure I believe the expectation is to have the metric defined *ONLY ONCE *and for the created metric/collector to be made available globally to be used to push out new values for the metric and the transient bg tasks to push metrics directly via *pushgateway* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prometheus Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-developers/09162890-f82d-4af2-bb80-a4901e73c23fn%40googlegroups.com.
