solaris VS prom-client

https://solaris.games is directly inspired by Subterfuge.

You can sign up to play here: https://solaris.games/

Are you familiar with Solaris? I think you'd love it.

https://solaris.games maybe

Solaris

Solaris is right up your alley.

Bun has no support for a bunch of API's in regards to buffers, the supported ES standard is 2019 with some thing from 2020 and up. So you need polyfills. So now the question do we need bun? No we do not. I'm certain if you would benchmark how https://github.com/solaris-games/solaris would perform with bun, you either see no improvements or bun performing worse by x times. And that's an actual real world example where performance would matter.

Solaris is an open source 4X slow-burn strategy game on the web focused on diplomacy, strategy and intrigue.

However, for this tutorial, the Prom-client package will be used as it has user-friendly documentation, a large user base and strong community support. Here is a link to its documentation and npm page.

prom-client

This approach will work as long as you don’t need to run multiple instances of the application in cluster mode. For collecting metrics in cluster mode, prom-client provides a good example with metric aggregation. But what if you’re running the application through the process manager PM2, where you don’t have access to the running cluster?

You would need to build a custom endpoint if it's a custom application that Prometheus can scrape but there are many libraries for that like prom-client for NodeJS or prometheus-net for C#. The list of client libraries can be found here.

For node, try this: https://github.com/siimon/prom-client

The metric itself is process_start_time_seconds (from the prom-client NodeJS package), which returns the timestamp in seconds corresponding to the start time of the process.

Consumer lag will quickly show any functional or technical issue with your event stream. By using the code examples from this blogpost, you can avoid having to dive into the SDKs yourself. Of course, you can adopt the metric collection to send the metric to the logs or to another metrics system like prometheus, datadog, or open telemetry.

There is a node client library for backend dev.