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

[Heiko Rupp]

On 9 Aug 2017, at 15:32, Jay Shaughnessy wrote:

> 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.

I think Prometheus has a special label key of __name__
(double underscore each) to get the raw metric name