runtime/metrics: specify that bucket counts increase monotonically for histogram metrics

Make it explicit in the documentation that the histogram metrics
are cumulative (i.e. each bucket count increases monotonically).

Change-Id: I89119ba816ac46a63f36e607e695fad3695057ce
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/487315
Reviewed-by: Dmitri Shuralyov <dmitshur@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Knyszek <mknyszek@google.com>
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Nayef Ghattas 2023-04-21 14:12:07 +02:00 committed by Michael Knyszek
parent e4b03f9425
commit 14f833f117
2 changed files with 14 additions and 9 deletions

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@ -196,6 +196,7 @@ var allDesc = []Description{
{
Name: "/gc/heap/allocs-by-size:bytes",
Description: "Distribution of heap allocations by approximate size. " +
"Bucket counts increase monotonically. " +
"Note that this does not include tiny objects as defined by " +
"/gc/heap/tiny/allocs:objects, only tiny blocks.",
Kind: KindFloat64Histogram,
@ -218,6 +219,7 @@ var allDesc = []Description{
{
Name: "/gc/heap/frees-by-size:bytes",
Description: "Distribution of freed heap allocations by approximate size. " +
"Bucket counts increase monotonically. " +
"Note that this does not include tiny objects as defined by " +
"/gc/heap/tiny/allocs:objects, only tiny blocks.",
Kind: KindFloat64Histogram,
@ -269,7 +271,7 @@ var allDesc = []Description{
},
{
Name: "/gc/pauses:seconds",
Description: "Distribution individual GC-related stop-the-world pause latencies.",
Description: "Distribution of individual GC-related stop-the-world pause latencies. Bucket counts increase monotonically.",
Kind: KindFloat64Histogram,
Cumulative: true,
},
@ -365,7 +367,7 @@ var allDesc = []Description{
},
{
Name: "/sched/latencies:seconds",
Description: "Distribution of the time goroutines have spent in the scheduler in a runnable state before actually running.",
Description: "Distribution of the time goroutines have spent in the scheduler in a runnable state before actually running. Bucket counts increase monotonically.",
Kind: KindFloat64Histogram,
Cumulative: true,
},

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@ -149,8 +149,9 @@ Below is the full list of supported metrics, ordered lexicographically.
/gc/heap/allocs-by-size:bytes
Distribution of heap allocations by approximate size.
Note that this does not include tiny objects as defined by
/gc/heap/tiny/allocs:objects, only tiny blocks.
Bucket counts increase monotonically. Note that this does not
include tiny objects as defined by /gc/heap/tiny/allocs:objects,
only tiny blocks.
/gc/heap/allocs:bytes
Cumulative sum of memory allocated to the heap by the
@ -163,8 +164,9 @@ Below is the full list of supported metrics, ordered lexicographically.
/gc/heap/frees-by-size:bytes
Distribution of freed heap allocations by approximate size.
Note that this does not include tiny objects as defined by
/gc/heap/tiny/allocs:objects, only tiny blocks.
Bucket counts increase monotonically. Note that this does not
include tiny objects as defined by /gc/heap/tiny/allocs:objects,
only tiny blocks.
/gc/heap/frees:bytes
Cumulative sum of heap memory freed by the garbage collector.
@ -197,8 +199,8 @@ Below is the full list of supported metrics, ordered lexicographically.
1, so a value of 0 indicates that it was never enabled.
/gc/pauses:seconds
Distribution individual GC-related stop-the-world pause
latencies.
Distribution of individual GC-related stop-the-world pause
latencies. Bucket counts increase monotonically.
/gc/stack/starting-size:bytes
The stack size of new goroutines.
@ -331,7 +333,8 @@ Below is the full list of supported metrics, ordered lexicographically.
/sched/latencies:seconds
Distribution of the time goroutines have spent in the scheduler
in a runnable state before actually running.
in a runnable state before actually running. Bucket counts
increase monotonically.
/sync/mutex/wait/total:seconds
Approximate cumulative time goroutines have spent blocked