While the global description is exposed, when defined, in a dedicated
metric, it is not possible to dump the description defined in a
frontend/listen/backend sections. So, thanks to this patch, it is now
possible to dump it as a label of all metrics of the corresponding
section. To do so, "desc-labels" parameter must be provided on the URL:
/metrics?desc-labels
When this parameter is set, if a description is provided in a section,
including the global one, the "desc" label will be added to all metrics of
this section. For instance:
haproxy_frontend_current_sessions{proxy="front-http",desc="..."} 1
Note that servers metrics inherit the description of their backend/listen
section.
This patch should solve the issue #1531.
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