Skip to content

Implement Summary metric #40

@folex

Description

@folex

Hi! Thank your for the project :)

I found myself missing an implementation of the Summary metric, so decided to file an issue in case anyone (maybe myself) decides to contribute an implementation.


Open Metrics spec defines a metric type that computes quantiles locally on the client: Summary.

It's quite useful if you want to learn/discover how a system behaves, especially if you don't have much data a-priori. In that sense, Summary is dual to Histogram - both can be used to understand data distribution (e.g. latency data), but with different use-cases and tradeoffs.

Good overview on the differences between Summary and Histogram metrics is given in Prometheus doc https://prometheus.io/docs/practices/histograms/

Metadata

Metadata

Assignees

Labels

Type

No type

Projects

No projects

Milestone

No milestone

Relationships

None yet

Development

No branches or pull requests

Issue actions