[RADIATOR] Promethues Metrics Exporter/Conflicts with Forks

[Kelsey Cummings]

On 7/2/2021 4:22 AM, Tarko Tikan wrote:
> hey,
> 
>> Count me as interested. It would feel less of a hack.
> 
> I'm still interested in proper solution as well but I can confirm that 
> this hack works just fine for us since I introduced it.

Turns out it works fine just as long as you aren't forking using 
FarmSize which predictably results in randomly receiving local stats to 
whichever fork accepts the request first.  This may not be readily apparent.

It's also not abundantly clear if either Monitor or SNMPAgent actually 
function as expected when there's multiple forks either.  It's not 
spelled out in the docs clearly in any case leaving one to assume it 
works as advertised.

Some shenanigans reopening ports in FarmChildHook and explicitly talking 
to each fork and then adding every variable together is a conceivable 
but simultaneously unappealing solution.

Is there a canonical way to combine per fork stats in a single place?

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