[Hawkular-dev] availability and metric endpoints

[Heiko W.Rupp]

> What I meant is that we shouldn't care about how the data is stored, if
> it's a counter, a gauge, a string. It's a "value point" in time.

While I think it is good to separate the storage from the semantics,
I do not think we should not care how it is stored.

For counters, which are integral values, we should probably not
store them as double.

Similar, a log line should not be stored as double either :-)

>
> What matters is how we query this data. For example, if you're working
> with a counter you'll probably be interested in applying a derivative
> function.

Yes