From efd8e2bffcdbb7b7a1e80694b36f221988fec39e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ken Rowland <kenneth.rowland@lexisnexisrisk.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2023 17:12:18 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] HPCC-30446 esp components failing to start in cloud due to
 invalid metrics

Added code to metrics manager to remove illegal characters from metric name

Signed-Off-By: Kenneth Rowland kenneth.rowland@lexisnexisrisk.com
---
 system/jlib/jmetrics.cpp | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/system/jlib/jmetrics.cpp b/system/jlib/jmetrics.cpp
index 40fc960bf82..04c4428156f 100644
--- 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
     {