Don't erase first numerical character in sensor name in prometheus format (#4226)

Co-authored-by: Dmitry Razumov <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/library/cpp/monlib/encode/prometheus/prometheus_encoder.cpp b/library/cpp/monlib/encode/prometheus/prometheus_encoder.cpp
index 8083221b63d..fc482a45707 100644
--- a/library/cpp/monlib/encode/prometheus/prometheus_encoder.cpp
+++ b/library/cpp/monlib/encode/prometheus/prometheus_encoder.cpp
@@ -109,13 +109,11 @@ namespace NMonitoring {
                 Y_ENSURE(!name.Empty(), "trying to write metric with empty name");
 
                 char ch = name[0];
-                if (NPrometheus::IsValidMetricNameStart(ch)) {
-                    Out_->Write(ch);
-                } else {
+                if (!NPrometheus::IsValidMetricNameStart(ch)) {
                     Out_->Write('_');
                 }
 
-                for (size_t i = 1, len = name.length(); i < len; i++) {
+                for (size_t i = 0, len = name.length(); i < len; i++) {
                     ch = name[i];
                     if (NPrometheus::IsValidMetricNameContinuation(ch)) {
                         Out_->Write(ch);