release-23.1: metrics: fix windowed histogram merging approach #104815
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.
This suggestion is invalid because no changes were made to the code.
Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is closed.
Suggestions cannot be applied while viewing a subset of changes.
Only one suggestion per line can be applied in a batch.
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.
Applying suggestions on deleted lines is not supported.
You must change the existing code in this line in order to create a valid suggestion.
Outdated suggestions cannot be applied.
This suggestion has been applied or marked resolved.
Suggestions cannot be applied from pending reviews.
Suggestions cannot be applied on multi-line comments.
Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is queued to merge.
Suggestion cannot be applied right now. Please check back later.
Backport 1/1 commits from #104088 on behalf of @ericharmeling.
/cc @cockroachdb/release
Fixes #103814.
Fixes #98266.
This commit updates the windowed histogram merging approach to add the previous window's histogram bucket counts and sample count to those of the current one. As a result of this change, the histograms will no longer report under-sampled quantile values, and timeseries metrics-derived charts (e.g., the quantile-based SQL service latency charts on the DB console's Metrics page) will more accurately display metrics.
Release note (bug fix): Updated the histogram window merge calculation to more accurately interpolate quantile values. This change will result in smoother, more accurate Metrics charts on the DB Console.
Release justification: bug fix