Björn Rabenstein

Note to self to consider #516 to make Desc's useful for generating documentation.

This has to take into account special float formatting. (An integer number that is actually typed as a float always has to end on `.0` or has to contain an...

Hmm, I would have thought it's also quite important for sample values. Following line of thought: - The unambiguous marking of int vs float is meant for consumers that, unlike...

Basic OpenMetrics generation is implemented now. I'll update the issue description to include the remaning TODOs. (We could break them into separate issues and close this one if that's preferred.)

> We also need to drop _sum when there's negative buckets. It would be a pity if OM really went down that road. See https://github.com/OpenObservability/OpenMetrics/issues/143 for a better solution.

I mostly assigned this to myself as a “default” because I used to be the maintainer of this repo. Therefore, I'm un-assigning this from myself no. New maintainers @bwplotka &...

It would be interesting to know if this actually causes problems in practice. As concluded in https://github.com/prometheus/client_golang/issues/701#issuecomment-571131978 , it looks like the behavior is by design and not really problematic....

There is also http://tips.robustperception.io/ , where concrete examples are supposed to live.

I'm not saying the solution is already on that site, or that the site is already in perfect operational condition. It's just the thing that @brian-brazil recently set up for...

We should also get clarity where and how to advertise/mark the version, cf. https://github.com/prometheus/common/issues/34