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fix some percentage calculations
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dashpole committed Jun 26, 2024
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## Overall takeaways

- A slight majority (54%) prefer leaving the dots in the metric name, rather
- A majority (60%) prefer leaving the dots in the metric name, rather
than translating to underscores.
- A slight majority (54%) prefer having the unit in the name, but only 37% think
it should be required.
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existing Prometheus metrics of translating to underscores.

Of users who indicated they used OpenTelemetry for metrics, and PromQL as their
query language, 54% preferred keeping the original OpenTelemetry metric name
including dots, and 46% want metric names that match Prometheus conventions with
query language, 60% preferred keeping the original OpenTelemetry metric name
including dots, and 40% want metric names that match Prometheus conventions with
only underscores.

![Dots vs underscores pie chart](dots-vs-underscores.png)
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Preferences generally split into two groups: Those that want to preserve the
original OpenTelemetry metric names, including dots, and without a unit suffix,
and those that prefer changing the name to match Prometheus conventions. 71% of
and those that prefer changing the name to match Prometheus conventions. 57% of
respondents who want to require units in metric names want to also want to
change dots to underscores. 77% of respondents who don't want units in metric
names prefer dots in metric names.
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The best predictors of a preference for preserving the OpenTelemetry name with
dots, and without units were having the role of developer, and being an expert
with OpenTelemetry libraries. For example, 74% of developers preferred not
having units in metric names.
with OpenTelemetry libraries. For example, 88% of developers preferred not
translating dots to underscores.

## Other feedback

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