src/runtime/metrics/sample.go

// Copyright 2020 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.

package metrics

import (
	_ "runtime" // depends on the runtime via a linkname'd function
	"unsafe"
)

// Sample captures a single metric sample.
type Sample struct {
	// Name is the name of the metric sampled.
	//
	// It must correspond to a name in one of the metric descriptions
	// returned by Descriptions.
	Name string

	// Value is the value of the metric sample.
	Value Value
}

// Implemented in the runtime.
func runtime_readMetrics(unsafe.Pointer, int, int)

// Read populates each Value field in the given slice of metric samples.
//
// Desired metrics should be present in the slice with the appropriate name.
// The user of this API is encouraged to re-use the same slice between calls for
// efficiency, but is not required to do so.
//
// Sample values with names not appearing in All will have their Value populated
// as KindBad to indicate that the name is unknown.
func Read(m []Sample) {
	runtime_readMetrics(unsafe.Pointer(&m[0]), len(m), cap(m))
}