Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Jump to bottom

Document implications of negative observations #871

Merged
merged 1 commit into from Jun 1, 2021
Merged

Document implications of negative observations #871

Show file tree
Hide file tree
Changes from all commits
Commits
Show all changes
1 commit
Select commit
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Diff view
Diff view
7 changes: 6 additions & 1 deletion prometheus/histogram.go
View file
Open in desktop
Expand Up @@ -47,7 +47,12 @@ type Histogram interface {
Metric
Collector

// Observe adds a single observation to the histogram.
// Observe adds a single observation to the histogram. Observations are
// usually positive or zero. Negative observations are accepted but
// prevent current versions of Prometheus from properly detecting
// counter resets in the sum of observations. See
// https://prometheus.io/docs/practices/histograms/#count-and-sum-of-observations
// for details.
Observe(float64)
}

Expand Down
7 changes: 6 additions & 1 deletion prometheus/summary.go
View file
Open in desktop
Expand Up @@ -55,7 +55,12 @@ type Summary interface {
Metric
Collector

// Observe adds a single observation to the summary.
// Observe adds a single observation to the summary. Observations are
// usually positive or zero. Negative observations are accepted but
// prevent current versions of Prometheus from properly detecting
// counter resets in the sum of observations. See
// https://prometheus.io/docs/practices/histograms/#count-and-sum-of-observations
// for details.
Observe(float64)
}

Expand Down