From 52d2f6652a871a328b1643a208cd16d6404f600d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Shivanth MP <shivanth.metchem@deliveryhero.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2025 18:57:04 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add support for  native histogram exemplars (#6772)

Added support for exemplars in exponential histograms.

Closes #5777

---------

Co-authored-by: Tyler Yahn <MrAlias@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 CHANGELOG.md                          |  1 +
 exporters/prometheus/exporter.go      |  3 +--
 exporters/prometheus/exporter_test.go | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 3 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 4c921778d..5cc352f44 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.htm
   See the [migration documentation](./semconv/v1.36.0/MIGRATION.md) for information on how to upgrade from `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/semconv/v1.34.0.`(#7032)
 - Add experimental self-observability span metrics in `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/trace`.
   Check the `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/trace/internal/x` package documentation for more information. (#7027)
+- Add native histogram exemplar support in `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/prometheus`. (#6772)
 
 ### Changed
 
diff --git a/exporters/prometheus/exporter.go b/exporters/prometheus/exporter.go
index 9664b3da8..f00c1ebf4 100644
--- a/exporters/prometheus/exporter.go
+++ b/exporters/prometheus/exporter.go
@@ -382,8 +382,7 @@ func addExponentialHistogramMetric[N int64 | float64](
 			otel.Handle(err)
 			continue
 		}
-
-		// TODO(GiedriusS): add exemplars here after https://github.com/prometheus/client_golang/pull/1654#pullrequestreview-2434669425 is done.
+		m = addExemplars(m, dp.Exemplars, labelNamer)
 		ch <- m
 	}
 }
diff --git a/exporters/prometheus/exporter_test.go b/exporters/prometheus/exporter_test.go
index dfe9c45ea..ca2cee5d1 100644
--- a/exporters/prometheus/exporter_test.go
+++ b/exporters/prometheus/exporter_test.go
@@ -1113,6 +1113,18 @@ func TestExemplars(t *testing.T) {
 			escapingScheme:        model.NoEscaping,
 			validationScheme:      model.UTF8Validation,
 		},
+		{
+			name: "exponential histogram",
+			recordMetrics: func(ctx context.Context, meter otelmetric.Meter) {
+				hist, err := meter.Int64Histogram("exponential_histogram")
+				require.NoError(t, err)
+				hist.Record(ctx, 9, attrsOpt)
+			},
+			expectedExemplarValue: 9,
+			expectedLabels:        expectedNonEscapedLabels,
+			escapingScheme:        model.NoEscaping,
+			validationScheme:      model.UTF8Validation,
+		},
 	} {
 		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
 			originalEscapingScheme := model.NameEscapingScheme
@@ -1144,13 +1156,24 @@ func TestExemplars(t *testing.T) {
 				metric.WithReader(exporter),
 				metric.WithResource(res),
 				metric.WithView(metric.NewView(
-					metric.Instrument{Name: "*"},
+					metric.Instrument{Name: "foo"},
 					metric.Stream{
 						// filter out all attributes so they are added as filtered
 						// attributes to the exemplar
 						AttributeFilter: attribute.NewAllowKeysFilter(),
 					},
-				)),
+				),
+				),
+				metric.WithView(metric.NewView(
+					metric.Instrument{Name: "exponential_histogram"},
+					metric.Stream{
+						Aggregation: metric.AggregationBase2ExponentialHistogram{
+							MaxSize: 20,
+						},
+						AttributeFilter: attribute.NewAllowKeysFilter(),
+					},
+				),
+				),
 			)
 			meter := provider.Meter("meter", otelmetric.WithInstrumentationVersion("v0.1.0"))
 
@@ -1179,16 +1202,23 @@ func TestExemplars(t *testing.T) {
 			case dto.MetricType_COUNTER:
 				exemplar = metric.GetCounter().GetExemplar()
 			case dto.MetricType_HISTOGRAM:
-				for _, b := range metric.GetHistogram().GetBucket() {
+				h := metric.GetHistogram()
+				for _, b := range h.GetBucket() {
 					if b.GetExemplar() != nil {
 						exemplar = b.GetExemplar()
 						continue
 					}
 				}
+				if h.GetZeroThreshold() != 0 || h.GetZeroCount() != 0 ||
+					len(h.PositiveSpan) != 0 || len(h.NegativeSpan) != 0 {
+					require.NotNil(t, h.Exemplars)
+					exemplar = h.Exemplars[0]
+				}
 			}
 			require.NotNil(t, exemplar)
 			require.Equal(t, tc.expectedExemplarValue, exemplar.GetValue())
 			require.Len(t, exemplar.GetLabel(), len(tc.expectedLabels))
+
 			for _, label := range exemplar.GetLabel() {
 				val, ok := tc.expectedLabels[label.GetName()]
 				require.True(t, ok)