HPCC-30446 esp components failing to start in cloud due to invalid me…

…trics Added code to metrics manager to remove illegal characters from metric name Signed-Off-By: Kenneth Rowland [email protected]
hpcc-systems · Oct 9, 2023 · efd8e2b · efd8e2b
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diff --git a/system/jlib/jmetrics.cpp b/system/jlib/jmetrics.cpp
@@ -153,6 +153,13 @@ bool MetricsManager::addMetric(const std::shared_ptr<IMetric> &pMetric)
     bool rc = false;
     std::string name = pMetric->queryName();
 
+    // Remove unwanted characters from input name
+    char removeChars[] = "_-* ";
+    for (unsigned i=0; i<strlen(removeChars); ++i)
+    {
+        name.erase(std::remove(name.begin(), name.end(), removeChars[i]), name.end());
+    }
+
     // Ensure metric name follows naming convention
     try
     {