services/horizon/internal/txsub: Add metrics to track which types of transaction Horizon is receiving #2553
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What
Add metrics to track which types of transaction (v0, v1, or fee bump) Horizon is receiving.
Why
Prior to protocol 13 there was only kind of transaction you could submit to Horizon. With these metrics we can monitor how many people actually use fee bump transactions and how many people are still submitting v0 transactions.
Note that we could also add hooks to ingestion which monitor the total number of fee bump transactions in a ledger. However, we will not be able to monitor the number of v0 transactions which were included in a ledger from the ingestion code because, once protocol 13 is enabled, Stellar Core will rewrite v0 transactions as v1 transactions.
Known limitations
We shouldn't have a separate metrics for each transaction type.
From https://prometheus.io/docs/practices/instrumentation/#use-labels
This issue also applies to many of the existing horizon metrics such as
txsub.succeeded
andtxsub.failed
.The go-metrics library does not support creating metrics with tags or labels, see rcrowley/go-metrics#135 . We should consider using the prometheus client directly for metrics https://github.com/go-kit/kit/blob/master/metrics/prometheus/prometheus.go . Alternatively we could use a library like https://github.com/armon/go-metrics which does support creating metrics with labels.