[prometheus-users] Aggregating histograms with different bucket boundaries

2023-04-30 Thread Adam Sydnor
Hey all, I was wondering if it is a bad idea to aggregate histograms that have different bucket boundaries. If so, why? Or can Prometheus handle this and produce reliable metrics like quartiles? I want to dynamically resize buckets boundaries in a histogram based on observed data but still be

Re: [prometheus-users] Aggregating histograms with different bucket boundaries

2023-05-16 Thread Bjoern Rabenstein
On 29.04.23 08:09, Adam Sydnor wrote: > > I was wondering if it is a bad idea to aggregate histograms that have > different bucket boundaries. If so, why? > > Or can Prometheus handle this and produce reliable metrics like quartiles? Generally, Prometheus cannot handle this. You could play som