On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 4:42 AM Chetan Mehrotra
wrote:
> > duration (rather than the higher-level Timer type). It seems like there
> > shouldn't be any manipulation of the values for Histograms and we
> shouldn't
> > output a measurement unit. It would be nice if a metrics provider could
> > assoc
> duration (rather than the higher-level Timer type). It seems like there
> shouldn't be any manipulation of the values for Histograms and we shouldn't
> output a measurement unit. It would be nice if a metrics provider could
> associate a unit with a Histogram, but that does not seem possible with
In the Metrics WebConsole plugin, Histograms are always assumed to be
durations. I'm unclear why this would be desirable. I'm no expert in the
Metrics library, but as far as I can tell, Histograms don't have a defined
unit of measurement and it would actually be strange to use them to store a
durat