apannetrat
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2 years ago I looked at the ISO 19086 standard and it qualifies metrics in terms of scale:
- interval scale: continuous scale or discrete scale with equal-sized scale values and an arbitrary zero.
- nominal scale: scale with unordered labeled categories or ordered by convention
- ordinal scale: scale with ordered labeled categories
- ratio scale: continuous scale with equal-sized scale values and an absolute or natural zero point
I don't know if this is useful.
3/18 meeting notes
consistent with openMetrics as well: ref: https://prometheus.io/docs/concepts/metric_types/
exposing the measures allows for trending on the measures. for simplicity thats a bit of a stretch goal. these are mostly "count"
the type field goes on the metric as well (in the future. not necessary for now). these are mostly a "gauge"
if everything is a gauge do we need to say anything about it?
Are there other, perhaps ratified ISO etc, standards that we should reach to instead?