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Unclear documentation: What exactly is a time-series #19

Open ghost opened 2 years ago

ghost commented 2 years ago

The whole pricing page is full of time-series but nowhere is there a definition of what a time-series is.

Is it some kind of metric with unlimited amount of measurements across the month. or is it number of measurements regardless of metrics? Both interpretations seems unreasonable.

In Billing sample 1 https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-pricing_plans#pricing_example1 Host 1 generates 1200 time series. Is that 1200 different metrics that delivers measurements/values to the monitoring tool? Or is that 1200 measurements/values captured over a month? Ie just about 1.5 measurements per hour

And while I am at it. What is an API call? Which API does this refer to, and from where comes the call?