feat: add ipfs version info to prometheus metrics #6688
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Adds
ipfs_info
prometheus metric with version and commit info to http://localhost:5001/debug/metrics/prometheus output...This follows the same pattern as go and other systems, adding a gauge metric that is set to 1, with the version info added as labels.
This is a common pattern for prometheus. It lets operators merge version info into other prometheus metrics by multiplying it with the other stat. As the value is always 1, it simply adds the labels to the aggregated info but does not change the other stats value... as described in https://www.robustperception.io/exposing-the-software-version-to-prometheus
For example, we already expose the go version info as
Part of #5604
License: MIT
Signed-off-by: Oli Evans oli@tableflip.io