What are the advantages of using a Histogram instead of a Gauge?

Also, check out this design doc for adding histogram metrics to Beam if you
haven't already: http://s.apache.org/beam-metrics-api (Not sure what the
current status is.)

On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 1:37 PM Richard Moorhead <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Beam's DistributionResult is implemented as a Gauge within the Flink
> runner. Can someone explain the rationale behind this? Would a PR to
> utilize a Histogram be acceptable?
>

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