Merge pull request #1177 from splunk/repo-sync

Pulling refs/heads/main into main

gdi/opentelemetry/components/signalfx-exporter.rst

@@ -82,7 +82,6 @@ The following example instructs the exporter to send only the ``cpu.interrupt``
 
 .. code-block:: yaml
 
-
    exporters:
      signalfx:
        include_metrics:
@@ -288,6 +287,15 @@ Translation rules currently allow the following actions:
 
 .. include:: /_includes/gdi/default-translation-metrics.rst
 
+.. _drop-histogram-metrics:
+
+Drop histogram metrics
+===================================================
+
+In case of high cardinality metrics, dropping histogram buckets might be useful. To drop histogram metrics, set ``drop_histogram_buckets`` to ``true``.
+
+When ``drop_histogram_buckets`` is activated, histogram buckets are dropped instead of being translated to datapoints with the ``_bucket`` suffix. Only datapoints with ``_sum``, ``_count``, ``_min``, and ``_max`` are sent through the exporter.
+
 .. _signalfx-exporter-settings:
 
 Settings