Only monotonic sum are counters (with _total) (open-telemetry#2644)

Signed-off-by: Goutham Veeramachaneni <[email protected]> Co-authored-by: Joshua MacDonald <[email protected]>
carlosalberto · Jul 8, 2022 · d853173 · d853173
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diff --git a/specification/metrics/data-model.md b/specification/metrics/data-model.md
@@ -1341,7 +1341,7 @@ An [OpenTelemetry Gauge](#gauge) MUST be converted to a Prometheus Gauge.
   - The new data point's start time must match the time of the accumulated data point. If not, see [detecting alignment issues].(#sums-detecting-alignment-issues).
 - Otherwise, it MUST be dropped.
 
-Sum metric points MUST have `_total` added as a suffix to the metric name.
+Monotonic sum metric points MUST have `_total` added as a suffix to the metric name.
 
 #### Histograms