Glossary term
What is counter (Counter metric)?
counter stands for Counter metric.
A metric number that only goes up, or resets to zero when the program restarts.
Learn it properly · Observability & SRELesson 2: Metrics and Prometheus: Counters, Gauges, Histograms and PercentilesThe metric types, labels and cardinality, why averages lie, percentiles, and a real Prometheus scrape of a Node service.