3 files changed, 65 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/modules/metrics/adminmetrics.go b/modules/metrics/adminmetrics.go
index f6a55e8..1cf398e 100644
--- a/modules/metrics/adminmetrics.go
+++ b/modules/metrics/adminmetrics.go
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ func (AdminMetrics) CaddyModule() caddy.ModuleInfo {
 
 // Routes returns a route for the /metrics endpoint.
 func (m *AdminMetrics) Routes() []caddy.AdminRoute {
-	metricsHandler := createMetricsHandler(nil)
+	metricsHandler := createMetricsHandler(nil, false)
 	h := caddy.AdminHandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) error {
 		metricsHandler.ServeHTTP(w, r)
 		return nil
diff --git a/modules/metrics/metrics.go b/modules/metrics/metrics.go
index eff364e..e6d4345 100644
--- a/modules/metrics/metrics.go
+++ b/modules/metrics/metrics.go
@@ -38,6 +38,10 @@ func init() {
 // unlike AdminMetrics.
 type Metrics struct {
 	metricsHandler http.Handler
+
+	// Disable OpenMetrics negotiation, enabled by default. May be necessary if
+	// the produced metrics cannot be parsed by the service scraping metrics.
+	DisableOpenMetrics bool `json:"disable_openmetrics,omitempty"`
 }
 
 // CaddyModule returns the Caddy module information.
@@ -59,7 +63,7 @@ func (l *zapLogger) Println(v ...interface{}) {
 // Provision sets up m.
 func (m *Metrics) Provision(ctx caddy.Context) error {
 	log := ctx.Logger(m)
-	m.metricsHandler = createMetricsHandler(&zapLogger{log})
+	m.metricsHandler = createMetricsHandler(&zapLogger{log}, !m.DisableOpenMetrics)
 	return nil
 }
 
@@ -71,7 +75,9 @@ func parseCaddyfile(h httpcaddyfile.Helper) (caddyhttp.MiddlewareHandler, error)
 
 // UnmarshalCaddyfile sets up the handler from Caddyfile tokens. Syntax:
 //
-//     metrics <matcher>
+//     metrics [<matcher>] {
+//         disable_openmetrics
+//     }
 //
 func (m *Metrics) UnmarshalCaddyfile(d *caddyfile.Dispenser) error {
 	for d.Next() {
@@ -79,6 +85,15 @@ func (m *Metrics) UnmarshalCaddyfile(d *caddyfile.Dispenser) error {
 		if len(args) > 0 {
 			return d.ArgErr()
 		}
+
+		for d.NextBlock(0) {
+			switch d.Val() {
+			case "disable_openmetrics":
+				m.DisableOpenMetrics = true
+			default:
+				return d.Errf("unrecognized subdirective %q", d.Val())
+			}
+		}
 	}
 	return nil
 }
@@ -95,7 +110,7 @@ var (
 	_ caddyfile.Unmarshaler       = (*Metrics)(nil)
 )
 
-func createMetricsHandler(logger promhttp.Logger) http.Handler {
+func createMetricsHandler(logger promhttp.Logger, enableOpenMetrics bool) http.Handler {
 	return promhttp.InstrumentMetricHandler(prometheus.DefaultRegisterer,
 		promhttp.HandlerFor(prometheus.DefaultGatherer, promhttp.HandlerOpts{
 			// will only log errors if logger is non-nil
@@ -103,7 +118,7 @@ func createMetricsHandler(logger promhttp.Logger) http.Handler {
 
 			// Allow OpenMetrics format to be negotiated - largely compatible,
 			// except quantile/le label values always have a decimal.
-			EnableOpenMetrics: true,
+			EnableOpenMetrics: enableOpenMetrics,
 		}),
 	)
 }
diff --git a/modules/metrics/metrics_test.go b/modules/metrics/metrics_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d5bdf50
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/metrics/metrics_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+package metrics
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/caddyserver/caddy/v2/caddyconfig/caddyfile"
+)
+
+func TestMetricsUnmarshalCaddyfile(t *testing.T) {
+	m := &Metrics{}
+	d := caddyfile.NewTestDispenser(`metrics bogus`)
+	err := m.UnmarshalCaddyfile(d)
+	if err == nil {
+		t.Errorf("expected error")
+	}
+
+	m = &Metrics{}
+	d = caddyfile.NewTestDispenser(`metrics`)
+	err = m.UnmarshalCaddyfile(d)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Errorf("unexpected error: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	if m.DisableOpenMetrics != false {
+		t.Errorf("DisableOpenMetrics should've been false: %v", m.DisableOpenMetrics)
+	}
+
+	m = &Metrics{}
+	d = caddyfile.NewTestDispenser(`metrics { disable_openmetrics }`)
+	err = m.UnmarshalCaddyfile(d)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Errorf("unexpected error: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	if m.DisableOpenMetrics != true {
+		t.Errorf("DisableOpenMetrics should've been true: %v", m.DisableOpenMetrics)
+	}
+
+	m = &Metrics{}
+	d = caddyfile.NewTestDispenser(`metrics { bogus }`)
+	err = m.UnmarshalCaddyfile(d)
+	if err == nil {
+		t.Errorf("expected error: %v", err)
+	}
+}