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BOOL Gauge Type
Is your feature request related to a problem? If so, please describe it.
I'd like to be able to monitor a boolean. This is useful for simple up/down metrics such a health checks.
Describe the solution you'd like.
The ability to create a Boolean Gauge which takes simply true/false. Stackdriver has a specific BOOL type for this. It appears for SignalFX and Prometheus a Gauge which just accepts 1/0 would suffice.
Describe alternatives you've considered.
Using a Long Gauge as a hack but not ideal for Stackdriver.
Additional context.
Add any other context or screenshots about the feature request here.
Please file this feature request to https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification. We'd like to be consistent with all language implementations when it comes to new APIs.
@dansiviter I think the new proposed idea coming from OpenMetrics is to support enums which probably can be very close to this and maybe more generic, a Boolean is just an enum with two values.
Still finding my feet with OpenTelemetry/OpenMetrics so apologies. Sounds promising so I'll take a look if it fits my use-case.
@dansiviter let me know if that fits your use-case, and if it does then I would move forward to push to that support in OpenTelemetry/OpenCensus.
See https://github.com/OpenObservability/OpenMetrics/pull/126/files#diff-d1792782ae179ab49b581de250c5def2R240