Hi Jeff,

Thanks so much for your quick responses. It is unfortunate that histogram is 
unavailable in dataflow. Do you know if there are any workaround? Or do you 
think it is plausible if we can use runner v2 and customize the image with 
Prometheus exporter?

Thanks again! 
Siyu

> 
> On Apr 4, 2022, at 5:00 PM, Jeff Klukas <jklu...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Siyu - The Beam metrics interface includes the Distribution metric type which 
> can be used for histograms:
> 
> https://beam.apache.org/documentation/programming-guide/#types-of-metrics
> 
> Particulars of support depend on the runner. For Cloud Dataflow, the reported 
> values are MAX, MIN, MEAN, and COUNT, so no support for finer-grained 
> percentiles:
> 
> https://cloud.google.com/dataflow/docs/guides/using-cloud-monitoring#custom_metrics
> 
>> On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 7:45 PM Siyu Lin <siyu...@unity3d.com> wrote:
>> Hi Beam community,
>> 
>> I am wondering if there is histogram metrics available (or alternative 
>> recommendations) for showing up quantiles. We have counter metrics already 
>> but we would also like to see some quantiles for different values. 
>> 
>> Thanks a lot!
>> Siyu

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