From 793354957a11b839d677084d074a1ee11f474b73 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Goutham Veeramachaneni Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2022 01:56:11 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Only monotonic sum are counters (with _total) (#2644) Signed-off-by: Goutham Veeramachaneni Co-authored-by: Joshua MacDonald --- specification/metrics/data-model.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/specification/metrics/data-model.md b/specification/metrics/data-model.md index 202d362d3e6..a1cbf7b99bd 100644 --- 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