# prometheus/client_golang

> Official Go client library for instrumenting applications with Prometheus metrics and for querying the Prometheus HTTP API. Used by Go developers to collect and expose metrics.

- Magnitude: 0.4 out of 10 — Quiet
- Stars: 6,037 total · +0 stars measured 2026-10-06, 11:46–14:29 UTC, ≈ 0 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: DevOps & infrastructure · Language: Go · License: Apache-2.0 · Created: 2013-01-25 · Last push: 2026-10-05
- GitHub: https://github.com/prometheus/client_golang · Homepage: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/prometheus/client_golang · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/prometheus/client_golang

## Useful for

- Add counters and histograms to a Go service and expose them via /metrics
- Export metrics via OpenTelemetry OTLP for batch jobs
- Query time series from a Prometheus server in a Go application

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-06 (UTC), 11:46–14:29: 6038 → 6037 stars (-1). This is the change over that interval.
- GitHub Trending Go today: #15, +1 star.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 1,325
- Issues and pull requests: 2,094
- Watchers: 71
- Average over the last week: 0 per day
- Usual pace: 1 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 0
- Latest release: v1.25.0-rc.0 (2026-10-05)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-07 … 2026-10-06: 0, 0, 2, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 2, 0, 2, 0, 1, 4, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0

## Spotted in now

- GitHub Trending Go today: #15, +1 star

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Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-06 14:31 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.