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

[Matthew Wringe]

On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 9:32 AM, Jay Shaughnessy <jshaughn at redhat.com> wrote:

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> I'm fairly sure the Agent already has a "name" tag or something similar.
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Yeah, the agent had a name, unit, and I think maybe something else.

We used those to display the custom metrics a bit more nicely in the
OpenShift console.


> 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.
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> On 8/9/2017 5:27 AM, Thomas Heute wrote:
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> We definitely need to solve that usability issue, I definitely experienced
> it in Grafana.
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> 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.
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> 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 ?
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> 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> wrote:
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>> On 9 Aug 2017, at 8:41, Joel Takvorian wrote:
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>> > 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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