'Write the points to the Prometheus exporter using Gauge.'

def export(self, name, columns, points):

    logger.debug('Export    {}    stats    to    Prometheus    exporter'.format(name))
    data = {k: float(v) for (k, v) in iteritems(dict(zip(columns, points))) if isinstance(v, Number)}
    for (k, v) in iteritems(data):
        metric_name = ((((self.prefix + self.METRIC_SEPARATOR) + name) + self.METRIC_SEPARATOR) + k)
        for c in ['.', '-', '/', '    ']:
            metric_name = metric_name.replace(c, self.METRIC_SEPARATOR)
        if (metric_name not in self._metric_dict):
            self._metric_dict[metric_name] = Gauge(metric_name, k)
        self._metric_dict[metric_name].set(v)
