From 30c9b5641ee660fa7a3f46cebbb8b6f460b4d4b9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Markus Klose <markus.klose@student.reutlingen-university.de>
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2022 17:56:29 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Comments

---
 index.js | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
index cf38599..f20c432 100644
--- a/index.js
+++ b/index.js
@@ -53,6 +53,10 @@ client.collectDefaultMetrics({register});
   help: 'The total number of client connections'
 }); */
 
+
+// Declaring custom metrics to monitor the chatserver
+// These metrics will monitor the system during runtime
+// Prometheus will scrape these metrics and provide them to Gafana
 const messageCounterIn = new client.Counter({
   name: 'node_message_counter_in',
   help: 'Counts the amount of incoming messages from clients to server'
@@ -116,7 +120,7 @@ const totalClientsInDB = new client.Gauge({
     });
 global.TOTALCLIENTSINDB = totalClientsInDB;
 
-
+// Register the metrics, to be collected in Prometheus database
 register.registerMetric(messageCounterIn);
 register.registerMetric(messageCounterOut);
 register.registerMetric(messageAll);
-- 
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