// Golang automatically resets to zero if this overflows
	atomic.AddUint64(&st.s3RequestsIncoming, 1)
}

// Converts http stats into struct to be sent back to the client.
func (st *HTTPStats) toServerHTTPStats(toLowerKeys bool) ServerHTTPStats {
	serverStats := ServerHTTPStats{}
	serverStats.S3RequestsIncoming = atomic.SwapUint64(&st.s3RequestsIncoming, 0)
	serverStats.S3RequestsInQueue = atomic.LoadInt32(&st.s3RequestsInQueue)

		)
	}
}

// collects http metrics for MinIO server in Prometheus specific format
// and sends to given channel
func httpMetricsPrometheus(ch chan<- prometheus.Metric) {
	httpStats := globalHTTPStats.toServerHTTPStats(true)

	for api, value := range httpStats.CurrentS3Requests.APIStats {
		ch <- prometheus.MustNewConstMetric(
			prometheus.NewDesc(
				prometheus.BuildFQName(s3Namespace, "requests", "current"),