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Merge pull request #871 from prometheus/beorn7/doc 

Document implications of negative observations
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Björn Rabenstein 2021-06-01 16:46:17 +02:00 committed by GitHub
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@ -47,7 +47,12 @@ type Histogram interface {
Metric Metric
Collector Collector
// Observe adds a single observation to the histogram. // Observe adds a single observation to the histogram. Observations are
// usually positive or zero. Negative observations are accepted but
// prevent current versions of Prometheus from properly detecting
// counter resets in the sum of observations. See
// https://prometheus.io/docs/practices/histograms/#count-and-sum-of-observations
// for details.
Observe(float64) Observe(float64)
} }

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prometheus/summary.go
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@ -55,7 +55,12 @@ type Summary interface {
Metric Metric
Collector Collector
// Observe adds a single observation to the summary. // Observe adds a single observation to the summary. Observations are
// usually positive or zero. Negative observations are accepted but
// prevent current versions of Prometheus from properly detecting
// counter resets in the sum of observations. See
// https://prometheus.io/docs/practices/histograms/#count-and-sum-of-observations
// for details.
Observe(float64) Observe(float64)
} }