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[prometheus] Stabilize Prometheus -> OTLP: Histograms

Open dashpole opened this issue 1 month ago • 0 comments

What are you trying to achieve?

Stabilize https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/otel/compatibility/prometheus_and_openmetrics/#histograms

It would be helpful to re-phrase this section to not rely as heavily on text format suffixes. E.g.

Lines with _count and _sum suffixes are used to determine the histogram’s count and sum.

Should become something like:

The histogram count must be used to determine the histogram's count. For the Prometheus text format, the count is a separate series of the form <metric family name>_count.

dashpole avatar Nov 21 '25 19:11 dashpole