From 1eb8d032a8ff0d4ed48dd0d95ef531ee04999b5f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kevin Pike <kpike@doubledutch.me>
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 08:18:17 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] use counter for heap released bytes

---
 prometheus/go_collector.go | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/prometheus/go_collector.go b/prometheus/go_collector.go
index 47e294c..4e131c0 100644
--- a/prometheus/go_collector.go
+++ b/prometheus/go_collector.go
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ func NewGoCollector() *goCollector {
 					nil, nil,
 				),
 				eval:    func(ms *runtime.MemStats) float64 { return float64(ms.HeapReleased) },
-				valType: GaugeValue,
+				valType: CounterValue,
 			}, {
 				desc: NewDesc(
 					memstatNamespace("heap_objects"),