change nats_up to gauge

Signed-off-by: Caleb Lloyd <[email protected]>
nats-io · Mar 7, 2024 · e8ca94f · e8ca94f
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commit e8ca94f
Showing 1 changed file with 3 additions and 3 deletions.
diff --git a/surveyor/collector_statz.go b/surveyor/collector_statz.go
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ func (sc *StatzCollector) buildDescs() {
 
 	// A unlabelled description for the up/down
 	sc.natsUp = prometheus.NewDesc(prometheus.BuildFQName("nats", "core", "nats_up"),
-		"1 if connected to NATS, 0 otherwise.  A counter.", nil, sc.constLabels)
+		"1 if connected to NATS, 0 otherwise.  A gauge.", nil, sc.constLabels)
 
 	sc.descs.Info = newPromDesc("info", "General Server information Summary gauge", sc.serverInfoLabels)
 	sc.descs.Start = newPromDesc("start_time", "Server start time gauge", sc.serverLabels)
@@ -928,15 +928,15 @@ func (sc *StatzCollector) Collect(ch chan<- prometheus.Metric) {
 		if err := sc.poll(); err != nil {
 			sc.logger.Warnf("Error polling NATS server: %v", err)
 			sc.pollErrCnt.WithLabelValues().Inc()
-			metrics.newCounterMetric(sc.natsUp, 0, nil)
+			metrics.newGaugeMetric(sc.natsUp, 0, nil)
 			return metrics.metrics, nil
 		}
 
 		// lock the stats
 		sc.Lock()
 		defer sc.Unlock()
 
-		metrics.newCounterMetric(sc.natsUp, 1, nil)
+		metrics.newGaugeMetric(sc.natsUp, 1, nil)
 		sc.surveyedCnt.WithLabelValues().Set(0)
 
 		for _, sm := range sc.stats {