Enum

temporality

Defines the window that an aggregation was calculated over.

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

Cases

CaseDescription
cumulative

A measurement interval that continues to expand forward in time from a starting point.

New measurements are added to all previous measurements since a start time.

This is the default temporality.

delta

A measurement interval that resets each cycle.

Measurements from one cycle are recorded independently, measurements from other cycles do not affect them.

low-memory

Configures Synchronous Counter and Histogram instruments to use Delta aggregation temporality, which allows them to shed memory following a cardinality explosion, thus use less memory.

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