counter term
metric that only increases — count of events
Use for: requests, errors, bytes sent. Never decreases (except on reset). Query as rate() in Prometheus to get per-second rate. Wrong choice: anything that should go down (use gauge).
metric that only increases — count of events
Use for: requests, errors, bytes sent. Never decreases (except on reset). Query as rate() in Prometheus to get per-second rate. Wrong choice: anything that should go down (use gauge).