ch <- prometheus.MustNewConstMetric(
		prometheus.NewDesc(
			prometheus.BuildFQName(minioNamespace, "nodes", "online"),
			"Total number of MinIO nodes online",
			nil, nil),
		prometheus.GaugeValue,
		float64(nodesUp),
	)
	ch <- prometheus.MustNewConstMetric(
		prometheus.NewDesc(
			prometheus.BuildFQName(minioNamespace, "nodes", "offline"),

	if metric.Description.Type == histogramMetric {
		if metric.Histogram == nil {
			return
		}
		for k, v := range metric.Histogram {
			pmetric, err := prometheus.NewConstMetric(
				prometheus.NewDesc(
					prometheus.BuildFQName(string(metric.Description.Namespace),
						string(metric.Description.Subsystem),
						string(metric.Description.Name)),
					metric.Description.Help,

// to define Metric and  help string
func newMinioResourceCollector(metricsGroups []*MetricsGroupV2) *minioResourceCollector {
	return &minioResourceCollector{
		metricsGroups: metricsGroups,
		desc:          prometheus.NewDesc("minio_resource_stats", "Resource statistics exposed by MinIO server", nil, nil),
	}
}

func prepareResourceMetrics(rm ResourceMetric, subSys MetricSubsystem, requireAvgMax bool) []MetricV2 {

	return prometheus.BuildFQName(namePrefix, "", string(md.Name))
}

func (md *MetricDescriptor) toPromDesc(namePrefix string, extraLabels map[string]string) *prometheus.Desc {
	return prometheus.NewDesc(
		md.toPromName(namePrefix),
		md.Help,
		md.VariableLabels, extraLabels,
	)
}

// NewCounterMD - creates a new counter metric descriptor.