util.openmetrics: Prettify format of histogram buckets
"%g" turns 1GB into 1.07374e+09, which is a bit awkward for the bytes
measurements IMO. Turning up the precision, at "%.17g" turns 0.1 into
0.10000000000000001 while "%0.16" gives 0.1, hiding most of those pesky
floating point artefacts. Lua version 5.2 uses "%.14g" ( see
LUA_NUMBER_FMT in luaconf.h.html ) so it seems like a sensible choice
here.
--- a/util/openmetrics.lua Mon Jun 07 17:37:14 2021 +0200
+++ b/util/openmetrics.lua Tue Jun 08 00:58:27 2021 +0200
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@
return "+Inf"
end
- return string.format("%g", v)
+ return string.format("%.14g", v)
end
-- BEGIN of generic MetricFamily implementation