[Hawkular-dev] A convention for metrics (short) name

[Jay Shaughnessy]

I'm fairly sure the Agent already has a "name" tag or something 
similar.  We definitely need a convention for this, if not an actual 
requirement.  The metricName is way too tedious, our use of tags should 
work towards Prometheus's use of labels.

On 8/9/2017 5:27 AM, Thomas Heute wrote:
> We definitely need to solve that usability issue, I definitely 
> experienced it in Grafana.
>
> For Grafana in particular, I know Prometheus driver has a "label name" 
> that is defined in Grafana and can be templatized with metrics labels. 
> It's purely on Grafana side and only works for Grafana.
>
> Having a convention is a quick solution, do we see it used by Metrics 
> internals or only by agents and UIs ? Does it need to support 
> templating with other tags or do we expect the client to be smarter to 
> tags value change ?
>
> I would also suggest displayName (or display_name or else) rather than 
> just name, I think it's clearer that it's for UI and can change.
>
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> On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 10:53 AM, Heiko Rupp <hrupp at redhat.com 
> <mailto:hrupp at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 9 Aug 2017, at 8:41, Joel Takvorian wrote:
>
>     > What would you say about having a convention of a special tag (let's
>     > say "_name") that would point to a (short) intelligible name for a
>     > metric. That convention wouldn't be mandatory in any case of course,
>     > but the UI could check if that tag exists and use that name, instead
>     > of the full metric id, for better display.
>
>     Makes sense to me.
>     We had a displayName in RHQ.
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