<div dir="ltr">We definitely need to solve that usability issue, I definitely experienced it in Grafana.<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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 ?</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 10:53 AM, Heiko Rupp <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hrupp@redhat.com" target="_blank">hrupp@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 9 Aug 2017, at 8:41, Joel Takvorian wrote:<br>
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> What would you say about having a convention of a special tag (let's<br>
> say "_name") that would point to a (short) intelligible name for a<br>
> metric. That convention wouldn't be mandatory in any case of course,<br>
> but the UI could check if that tag exists and use that name, instead<br>
> of the full metric id, for better display.<br>
<br>
</span>Makes sense to me.<br>
We had a displayName in RHQ.<br>
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