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Prometheus Java Client Benchmarks

Run Information

  • Date: 2026-01-25T20:42:23Z
  • Commit: a8dacf2
  • JDK: 25.0.1 (OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM)
  • Benchmark config: 1 fork(s), 1 warmup, 1 measurement, 4 threads
  • Hardware: AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core Processor, 4 cores, 16 GB RAM
  • OS: Linux 6.11.0-1018-azure

Results

CounterBenchmark

Benchmark Score Error Units
prometheusInc 49.08K ops/s fastest
prometheusNoLabelsInc 43.94K ops/s 1.1x slower
codahaleIncNoLabels 39.48K ops/s 1.2x slower
prometheusAdd 38.37K ops/s 1.3x slower
simpleclientInc 6.85K ops/s 7.2x slower
simpleclientNoLabelsInc 6.85K ops/s 7.2x slower
simpleclientAdd 6.67K ops/s 7.4x slower
openTelemetryIncNoLabels 1.56K ops/s 32x slower
openTelemetryInc 1.53K ops/s 32x slower
openTelemetryAdd 1.25K ops/s 39x slower

HistogramBenchmark

Benchmark Score Error Units
prometheusClassic 4.79K ops/s fastest
simpleclient 4.36K ops/s 1.1x slower
prometheusNative 3.06K ops/s 1.6x slower
openTelemetryClassic 663.19 ops/s 7.2x slower
openTelemetryExponential 561.93 ops/s 8.5x slower

TextFormatUtilBenchmark

Benchmark Score Error Units
prometheusWriteToNull 523.11K ops/s fastest
prometheusWriteToByteArray 519.81K ops/s 1.0x slower
openMetricsWriteToByteArray 505.74K ops/s 1.0x slower
openMetricsWriteToNull 488.80K ops/s 1.1x slower

Raw Results

Benchmark                                            Mode  Cnt          Score        Error  Units
CounterBenchmark.codahaleIncNoLabels                thrpt    1      39484.285               ops/s
CounterBenchmark.openTelemetryAdd                   thrpt    1       1252.590               ops/s
CounterBenchmark.openTelemetryInc                   thrpt    1       1525.810               ops/s
CounterBenchmark.openTelemetryIncNoLabels           thrpt    1       1557.884               ops/s
CounterBenchmark.prometheusAdd                      thrpt    1      38371.092               ops/s
CounterBenchmark.prometheusInc                      thrpt    1      49084.106               ops/s
CounterBenchmark.prometheusNoLabelsInc              thrpt    1      43935.473               ops/s
CounterBenchmark.simpleclientAdd                    thrpt    1       6674.021               ops/s
CounterBenchmark.simpleclientInc                    thrpt    1       6851.358               ops/s
CounterBenchmark.simpleclientNoLabelsInc            thrpt    1       6845.473               ops/s
HistogramBenchmark.openTelemetryClassic             thrpt    1        663.189               ops/s
HistogramBenchmark.openTelemetryExponential         thrpt    1        561.932               ops/s
HistogramBenchmark.prometheusClassic                thrpt    1       4794.897               ops/s
HistogramBenchmark.prometheusNative                 thrpt    1       3061.584               ops/s
HistogramBenchmark.simpleclient                     thrpt    1       4360.108               ops/s
TextFormatUtilBenchmark.openMetricsWriteToByteArray  thrpt    1     505744.103               ops/s
TextFormatUtilBenchmark.openMetricsWriteToNull      thrpt    1     488798.007               ops/s
TextFormatUtilBenchmark.prometheusWriteToByteArray  thrpt    1     519808.233               ops/s
TextFormatUtilBenchmark.prometheusWriteToNull       thrpt    1     523113.773               ops/s

Notes

  • Score = Throughput in operations per second (higher is better)
  • Error = 99.9% confidence interval

Benchmark Descriptions

Benchmark Description
CounterBenchmark Compares counter increment performance across Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, simpleclient (0.16.0), and Codahale Metrics
HistogramBenchmark Compares histogram observation performance (classic buckets vs native/exponential)
TextFormatUtilBenchmark Measures metric exposition format writing speed (Prometheus text vs OpenMetrics)

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