# Background
Erigon currently uses a combination of Victoria Metrics and Prometheus
client for providing metrics.
We want to rationalize this and use only the Prometheus client library,
but we want to maintain the simplified Victoria Metrics methods for
constructing metrics.
This task is currently partly complete and needs to be finished to a
stage where we can remove the Victoria Metrics module from the Erigon
code base.
# Summary of changes
- Adds missing `NewCounter`, `NewSummary`, `NewHistogram`,
`GetOrCreateHistogram` functions to `erigon-lib/metrics` similar to the
interface VictoriaMetrics lib provides
- Minor tidy up for consistency inside `erigon-lib/metrics/set.go`
around return types (panic vs err consistency for funcs inside the
file), error messages, comments
- Replace all remaining usages of `github.com/VictoriaMetrics/metrics`
with `github.com/ledgerwatch/erigon-lib/metrics` - seamless (only import
changes) since interfaces match
