Arianna Vespri
Arianna Vespri
Thanks a lot for the detailed update! Much appreciated
Awesome! Thank you very much! I'm on it.
@ArthurSens , I've marked this as "ready for review", but I'm still assuming [your PR](https://github.com/prometheus/client_golang/pull/1408) should be merged first?
@bwplotka thanks, I'll await @beorn7 and @ArthurSens 's feedback on your questions, as they know the original motivation :)
> If we decide to support units, let's think of alternative that isn't breaking changes to downstream projects :) Of course! I'll await your decision whether to support them and,...
Thank you all very much for your considerations and suggestions! In order not to enforce that the unit is also in the metric name when the unit field is populated,...
> Hi @vesari! > > The team met recently and one of the things we discussed was whether we accept OpenMetrics units or not. A TL;DR; is: **_We won't accept...
> Maybe we could start brainstorming how to use the unit metadata in Prometheus? Although this would be a high-complexity project that I would also need a lot of time...
As agreed with @bwplotka, we want to add units eventually, but this needs more thought on how to avoid adding significant boilerplate to all users for that; help wanted, closing...
I'll be happy to do so