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Cian Johnston f1d333f0e6 refactor: deduplicate utility helpers across the codebase (#23338)
Audited exported helpers in `coderd/util/*`, `testutil`, `cryptorand`,
and friends, then replaced duplicated implementations with canonical
versions.

- **fix: `maps.SortedKeys` generic signature** — value type was
hardcoded to `any`, making it impossible to actually call. Added second
type parameter `V any`. Added table-driven tests with `cmp.Diff`.
- **refactor: replace ad-hoc ptr helpers with `ptr.Ref`** — removed
`int64Ptr`, `stringPtr`, `boolPtr`, `i64ptr`, `strPtr`, `PtrInt32`
across 6 files.
- **refactor: replace local `sortedKeys`/`sortKeys` with
`maps.SortedKeys`** — now that the signature is fixed, scripts can use
it.
- **refactor: replace hand-rolled `capitalize` with
`strings.Capitalize`** — the typegen version was also not UTF-8 safe.

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Metrics Documentation Generator

This tool generates the Prometheus metrics documentation at docs/admin/integrations/prometheus.md.

How It Works

The documentation is generated from two metrics files:

  1. metrics (static, manually maintained)
  2. generated_metrics (auto-generated, do not edit)

These files are merged and used to produce the final documentation.

metrics (static)

Contains metrics that are not directly defined in the coder source code:

  • go_*: Go runtime metrics
  • process_*: Process metrics from prometheus/client_golang
  • promhttp_*: Prometheus HTTP handler metrics
  • coder_aibridged_*: Metrics from external dependencies

Note

This file also contains edge cases where metric metadata cannot be accurately extracted by the scanner (e.g., labels determined by runtime logic). Static metrics take priority over generated metrics when both files contain the same metric name.

Edit this file to add metrics that should appear in the documentation but are not scanned from the coder codebase, or to manually override metrics where the scanner generates incorrect metadata (e.g., missing runtime-determined labels like in agent_scripts_executed_total).

generated_metrics (auto-generated)

Contains metrics extracted from the coder source code by the AST scanner (scanner/scanner.go).

Do not edit this file directly. It is regenerated by running:

make scripts/metricsdocgen/generated_metrics

Updating Metrics Documentation

To regenerate the documentation after code changes:

make docs/admin/integrations/prometheus.md

This will:

  • Run the scanner to update generated_metrics
  • Merge metrics and generated_metrics metric files
  • Update the documentation file