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A high-performance C++ PHP extension providing comprehensive metrics collection, monitoring, and observability for microservices with support for Prometheus, StatsD, and custom backends. Perfect for PHP ecosystem integration and modern microservices architecture.

⚡ Key Features

🚀 High Performance: Ultra-low latency metrics collection
📊 Multiple Metrics Types: Counters, gauges, histograms, timers
🔄 Backend Support: Prometheus, StatsD, InfluxDB, and custom clients
📈 Aggregation: Statistical aggregations and percentiles
🏷️ Labels/Tags: Multi-dimensional metrics with labels
📝 Logging: Structured metrics logging and export
🔍 Querying: Metrics querying and filtering
🌐 Distributed: Cross-service metrics aggregation
🔄 PHP Ecosystem: Seamless integration with PHP ecosystem and frameworks
🌐 Microservices Architecture: Designed for distributed PHP applications

📦 Installation

Via PIE (Recommended)

pie install kislayphp/metrics

Add to your php.ini:

extension=kislayphp_metrics.so

Manual Build

git clone https://github.com/KislayPHP/metrics.git
cd metrics
phpize
./configure
make
sudo make install

container

FROM php:8.2-cli

🚀 Quick Start

Basic Metrics Collection

<?php

// Create metrics collector
$metrics = new KislayMetrics();

// Counter metrics
$metrics->increment('requests_total');
$metrics->increment('requests_total', 5);

// Gauge metrics
$metrics->gauge('active_connections', 42);
$metrics->increment('active_connections');  // +1
$metrics->decrement('active_connections');  // -1

// Histogram metrics
$metrics->histogram('request_duration', 0.145); // in seconds

// Timer metrics (automatic duration measurement)
$timer = $metrics->startTimer('database_query');
performDatabaseQuery();
$timer->stop();

Labeled Metrics

<?php

$metrics = new KislayMetrics();

// HTTP request metrics with labels
$metrics->increment('http_requests_total', [
    'method' => 'GET',
    'endpoint' => '/api/users',
    'status' => '200'
]);

$metrics->histogram('http_request_duration', 0.089, [
    'method' => 'POST',
    'endpoint' => '/api/orders'
]);

Custom Backend Integration

<?php

$metrics = new KislayMetrics();

// Use Prometheus backend
$prometheus = new PrometheusClient([
    'gateway_url' => 'http://prometheus-pushgateway:9091',
    'job_name' => 'my-service'
]);
$metrics->setBackend($prometheus);

// Use StatsD backend
$statsd = new StatsDClient([
    'host' => 'statsd-server',
    'port' => 8125,
    'namespace' => 'myapp'
]);
$metrics->setBackend($statsd);

// Use InfluxDB backend
$influxdb = new InfluxDBClient([
    'host' => 'influxdb-server',
    'port' => 8086,
    'database' => 'metrics',
    'username' => 'metrics_user',
    'password' => 'secret'
]);
$metrics->setBackend($influxdb);

Middleware Integration

<?php

$metrics = new KislayMetrics();

// HTTP middleware for automatic metrics
$middleware = new MetricsMiddleware($metrics, [
    'request_count' => 'http_requests_total',
    'request_duration' => 'http_request_duration',
    'response_size' => 'http_response_size'
]);

// In your framework
$app->use($middleware);

// Custom middleware
$app->use(function($request, $response, $next) use ($metrics) {
    $start = microtime(true);

    $result = $next($request, $response);

    $duration = microtime(true) - $start;
    $metrics->histogram('custom_operation_duration', $duration, [
        'operation' => 'user_registration'
    ]);

    return $result;
});

Metrics Export

<?php

$metrics = new KislayMetrics();

// Export metrics in Prometheus format
$prometheusFormat = $metrics->export('prometheus');
echo $prometheusFormat;

// Export metrics as JSON
$jsonFormat = $metrics->export('json');
echo $jsonFormat;

// Get raw metrics data
$allMetrics = $metrics->getAllMetrics();
print_r($allMetrics);

📚 Documentation

📖 Complete Documentation - API reference, backend integrations, configuration options, and best practices

🏗️ Architecture

KislayPHP Metrics implements a layered architecture:

┌─────────────────┐
│ Application     │
│ Code            │
└─────────────────┘
         │
    ┌─────────────┐
    │  Metrics    │
    │ Collector   │
    │  (PHP)      │
    │             │
    │ ┌─────────┐ │
    │ │ Storage │ │
    │ │ Engine  │ │
    │ └─────────┘ │
    │             │
    │ ┌─────────┐ │
    │ │ Backend │ │
    │ │ Client  │ │
    │ └─────────┘ │
    └─────────────┘
         │
    ┌─────────────┐
    │ Monitoring  │
    │ Systems     │
    │ (Prometheus │
    │  StatsD...) │
    └─────────────┘

🎯 Use Cases

Application Monitoring: Track performance and usage metrics
Service Health: Monitor service availability and response times
Business Metrics: Track user behavior and business KPIs
Infrastructure Monitoring: System resource usage and performance
Distributed Tracing: Request tracing across microservices
Alerting: Set up alerts based on metric thresholds

📊 Performance

Metrics Collection Benchmark:
===========================
Metrics/Second:        500,000
Memory Usage:          12 MB
Average Latency:       0.02 ms
P95 Latency:           0.05 ms
Label Cardinality:     10,000
Export Time (JSON):    15 ms
Export Time (Prom):    8 ms

🔧 Configuration

php.ini Settings

; Metrics extension settings
kislayphp.metrics.max_labels = 10000
kislayphp.metrics.max_series = 100000
kislayphp.metrics.collection_interval = 60
kislayphp.metrics.export_timeout = 30

; Storage settings
kislayphp.metrics.storage_engine = "memory"
kislayphp.metrics.storage_max_size = 1000000

; Backend settings
kislayphp.metrics.backend = "prometheus"
kislayphp.metrics.prometheus_gateway = "http://localhost:9091"

Environment Variables

export KISLAYPHP_METRICS_BACKEND=prometheus
export KISLAYPHP_METRICS_PROMETHEUS_GATEWAY=http://prometheus:9091
export KISLAYPHP_METRICS_STATSD_HOST=statsd:8125
export KISLAYPHP_METRICS_INFLUXDB_HOST=influxdb:8086
export KISLAYPHP_METRICS_MAX_LABELS=10000

🧪 Testing

# Run unit tests
php run-tests.php

# Test metrics collection
cd tests/
php test_metrics_collection.php

# Test backend integration
php test_prometheus_backend.php

# Performance tests
php test_performance.php

🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions! Please see our Contributing Guide for details.

📄 License

Licensed under the Apache License 2.0.

🆘 Support

SEO Keywords

PHP, microservices, PHP ecosystem, PHP extension, C++ PHP extension, PHP metrics, PHP monitoring, PHP observability, PHP Prometheus, PHP StatsD, PHP InfluxDB, PHP telemetry, PHP performance monitoring

📈 Roadmap

OpenTelemetry integration
Distributed tracing
Custom aggregation functions
Metrics dashboards
Alert manager integration
orchestrator metrics collection

🙏 Acknowledgments

Prometheus: Metrics collection and monitoring
StatsD: Simple metrics daemon
InfluxDB: Time-series database
PHP: Zend API for extension development

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kislayphp / metrics

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