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Article on `floatValue` #65

Open winsmith opened 1 year ago

winsmith commented 1 year ago

The floatValue property in signals is pretty undocumented because I seem to have told almost no one about it. This is a ticket to write an article about it.

Goal: Tell people the floatValue property exists and give a few examples on how to use it

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Intro: all payload dimensions you send to TD are typed as strings, but there's a special case
What is floatValue? FloatValue is a way that you send a metric – a numerical value – to TD
You can average it, sum it up, etc
Code example

Basically this but with a bit more content: https://github.com/TelemetryDeck/Issues/discussions/233#discussioncomment-5716862

warpling commented 2 months ago

It'd be great to explain the pros/cons to using the floatValue field for Ints as well!