Enum

temporality

Defines the window that an aggregation was calculated over.

enum temporality {
  cumulative,
  delta,
  low-memory,
}

Cases

CaseDescription
cumulativeA measurement interval that continues to expand forward in time from a starting point.
deltaA measurement interval that resets each cycle.
low-memoryConfigures Synchronous Counter and Histogram instruments to use Delta aggregation temporality, which allows them to shed memory following a cardinality explosion, thus use less memory.