prometheus-community/elasticsearch_exporter

Wrong metric type for index document counts ?

kuseman opened this issue · 1 comments

kuseman commented

Is there any special reason these metrics are gauge's and not a counter's ?

https://github.com/prometheus-community/elasticsearch_exporter/blob/master/README.md?plain=1#L143-L147

Isn't these values simple counts only?
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sysadmind commented

No special reason. They should be converted to a counter long term. As far as I am aware, there is no difference to prometheus itself.