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Fixes monotonicity issues we have implementing the specification. #2010

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Fixes #2009

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  • Prevent negative measurements in Histogram Instruments so we
    can include monotonic sum in the data and export to prometheus.
  • Remove explicit monotonicity argument to aggregators and always infer
    from instrument type.
    • Expand list of supported instruments for Sum aggregation with details
      on default aggregation.
    • Add note on handling sum in histogram for instruments that allow
      negative measurements.

Related issues:

- Prevent negative measurements in Histogram Instruments so we
  can include monotonic sum in the data and export to prometheus.
- Remove explicit monotonicity argument to aggregators and always infer
  from instrument type.
  - Expand list of supported instruments for Sum aggregation with details
    on default aggregation.
  - Add note on handling `sum` in histogram for instruments that allow
    negative measurements.
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@reyang reyang added area:sdk Related to the SDK spec:metrics Related to the specification/metrics directory labels Oct 12, 2021
@reyang reyang added this to the Metrics API/SDK Feature Freeze milestone Oct 12, 2021
@reyang reyang changed the title Fixes monotonicity issues we have implementing the specificaiton. Fixes monotonicity issues we have implementing the specification. Oct 13, 2021
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Looks good to me. If there is demand for a histogram of signed measurements, my preference then would be to add a field to encode the primitive measurement type (which is either Counter, UpDownCounter, or Gauge, in which case the Sum is not necessarily well-defined for Gauge histograms, as I wrote in open-telemetry/oteps#156).

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@jmacd jmacd merged commit 166fc3f into open-telemetry:main Oct 15, 2021
@jsuereth jsuereth deleted the wip-montonicity-fixes branch October 18, 2021 18:37
carlosalberto pushed a commit to carlosalberto/opentelemetry-specification that referenced this pull request Oct 31, 2024
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* Fixes monotonicity issues we have implementing the specificaiton.

- Prevent negative measurements in Histogram Instruments so we
  can include monotonic sum in the data and export to prometheus.
- Remove explicit monotonicity argument to aggregators and always infer
  from instrument type.
  - Expand list of supported instruments for Sum aggregation with details
    on default aggregation.
  - Add note on handling `sum` in histogram for instruments that allow
    negative measurements.

* Update specification/metrics/sdk.md

Co-authored-by: Aaron Abbott <[email protected]>

Co-authored-by: Aaron Abbott <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Joshua MacDonald <[email protected]>
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Metrics SDK defaults Histogram instruments to report monotonic sums, but allows negative measurements.
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