buildinfo

Package buildinfo provides basic building blocks and instructions to easily add build and release information to your app.

go get github.com/go-pogo/buildinfo

import "github.com/go-pogo/buildinfo"

Using ldflags

Declare build info variables in your main package:

package main

// this value is changed via ldflags when building a new release
var version string

func main() {
    bld, err := buildinfo.New(version)
}

Build your Go project and include the following ldflags:

go build -ldflags=" \
  -X main.version=`$(git describe --tags)` \
  main.go

Observability usage

When using a metrics scraper like Prometheus or OpenTelemetry, it is often a good idea to make the build information of your app available. Below example shows just how easy it is to create and register a collector with the build information as constant labels.

Prometheus metric collector

prometheus.MustRegister(prometheus.NewGaugeFunc(
    prometheus.GaugeOpts{
        Namespace:   "myapp",
        Name:        buildinfo.MetricName,
        Help:        buildinfo.MetricHelp,
        ConstLabels: bld.Map(),
    },
    func() float64 { return 1 },
))

OTEL resource

resource.Merge(
    resource.Default(),
    resource.NewSchemaless(
        semconv.ServiceName("myapp"),
        semconv.ServiceVersion(bld.Version()),
        attribute.String("vcs.revision", bld.Revision()),
        attribute.String("vcs.time", bld.Time().Format(time.RFC3339)),
    ),
)

Documentation

Additional detailed documentation is available at pkg.go.dev

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License

Copyright © 2020-2024 Roel Schut. All rights reserved.

This project is governed by a BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.