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+package kubernetes
+
+// Taken and modified from the Kubernetes plugin of CoreDNS, under Apache 2.0.
+
+import (
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus"
+
+	"source.monogon.dev/osbase/net/dns"
+)
+
+var (
+	// dnsProgrammingLatency is defined as the time it took to program a DNS
+	// instance - from the time a service or pod has changed to the time the
+	// change was propagated and was available to be served by a DNS server.
+	// The definition of this SLI can be found at https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/sig-scalability/slos/dns_programming_latency.md
+	// Note that the metrics is partially based on the time exported by the
+	// endpoints controller on the master machine. The measurement may be
+	// inaccurate if there is a clock drift between the node and master machine.
+	// The service_kind label can be one of:
+	//   * cluster_ip
+	//   * headless_with_selector
+	//   * headless_without_selector
+	dnsProgrammingLatency = dns.MetricsFactory.NewHistogramVec(prometheus.HistogramOpts{
+		Namespace: "dnsserver",
+		Subsystem: "kubernetes",
+		Name:      "dns_programming_duration_seconds",
+		// From 1 millisecond to ~17 minutes.
+		Buckets: prometheus.ExponentialBuckets(0.001, 2, 20),
+		Help:    "In Cluster DNS Programming Latency in seconds",
+	}, []string{"service_kind"})
+)
+
+func recordDNSProgrammingLatency(lastChangeTriggerTime time.Time) {
+	if !lastChangeTriggerTime.IsZero() {
+		// If we're here it means that the Endpoints object is for a headless service
+		// and that the Endpoints object was created by the endpoints-controller
+		// (because the LastChangeTriggerTime annotation is set). It means that the
+		// corresponding service is a "headless service with selector".
+		dnsProgrammingLatency.WithLabelValues("headless_with_selector").
+			Observe(time.Since(lastChangeTriggerTime).Seconds())
+	}
+}