From 40fa21eb554542fdfa3348566085d774eac8586b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2024 10:03:13 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update signalfx-exporter.rst --- gdi/opentelemetry/components/signalfx-exporter.rst | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/gdi/opentelemetry/components/signalfx-exporter.rst b/gdi/opentelemetry/components/signalfx-exporter.rst index 744ece271..e8216e981 100644 --- a/gdi/opentelemetry/components/signalfx-exporter.rst +++ b/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