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September 30, 2019
We looked previously at the counter, gauge, and summary, how does the Prometheus histogram work?
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March 25, 2019
We looked previously at the counter and gauge, how does the Prometheus summary work?
February 27, 2017
The Prometheus client library guidelines recommend having a Child be returned via labels(). Why?
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December 26, 2016
We looked previously at the counter, how does the Prometheus gauge work?
April 8, 2016
There are four standard types of metric in Prometheus instrumentation: Gauge, Counter, Summary and Histogram. Today we'll have a look at the principles around Counters, and how Prometheus differs from other monitoring systems.
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