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github.com › prometheus › docs › issues › 2465
Naming conventions: _total vs. _count · Issue #2465 · prometheus/docs
May 21, 2024 - The Metric and label naming documentation page states that "an accumulating count has a total as a suffix". The Histograms and summaries best practice page however uses _count as the suff...
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github.com › knative › serving › issues › 8287
Prometheus metric to count the total number of requests routed to the instances of a deployment/configuration · Issue #8287 · knative/serving
June 10, 2020 - /area autoscale /area monitoring /area networking Describe the feature Currently there are metrics called request_count and app_request_count which are exposed by queue-proxy on port 9091 which give us the count of requests that hit that...
Author: knative
HTTP requests total count
Starting from an empty metrics storage, and after only one request to GET /api/about, I got those metrics (removed Prometheus stuff for readability...) : epr_http_2xx_responses_total{action="G... More on github.com
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June 29, 2022Setting metric unit to "total"
a4dd93b enforced counters ending in _total, but the unit= parameter doesn't seem to interact well with that. If I pass unit="total" to a Counter, I get a _total_total suffix (but only in some place... More on github.com
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May 7, 2020prometheus - Get Total requests in a period of time - Stack Overflow
Both issues are documented at github.com/prometheus/prometheus/issues/3746 . If you need accurate integer values from increase() function, then take a look at MetricsQL. ... Save this answer. ... Show activity on this post. What you need is the increase() function, that will calculate the difference between the counter ... More on stackoverflow.com
Prometheus counter should end in _total, and only need _total.
Hi in the example on https://github.com/eclipse/microprofile-metrics/blob/d36d73f761c289987c11b1977d99eebb01b66e3f/spec/src/main/asciidoc/metrics_spec.adoc#325-counter-prometheus-text-format the counter is missing the _total suffix. More on github.com
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November 1, 2017GitHub
github.com › prometheus › client_python › issues › 317
Announcement about implicit addition of "_total" to counter metric names? · Issue #317 · prometheus/client_python
October 3, 2018 - We've just been bitten ... that Counter now implicitly adds _total to the end of the metrics name. This is unfortunate as people who run our services are now discovering a bunch of their metrics have disappeared from their monitoring dashboards, causing confusion. (Yes we should probably have pinned our dep explicitly to 0.3.x). My question is really just whether this was publicised anywhere before the release? The Prometheus docs seem ...
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github.com › artprima › prometheus-metrics-bundle › issues › 77
HTTP requests total count · Issue #77 · artprima/prometheus-metrics-bundle
June 29, 2022 - Starting from an empty metrics storage, and after only one request to GET /api/about, I got those metrics (removed Prometheus stuff for readability...) : epr_http_2xx_responses_total{action="GET-api_about"} 1 epr_http_2xx_responses_total{action="all"} 1 epr_http_requests_total{action="GET-api_about"} 2 epr_http_requests_total{action="all"} 2 epr_http_responses_total{action="GET-api_about"} 1 epr_http_responses_total{action="all"} 1 · Ok, so the total requests count is 2 whereas I only had one request.
Author: artprima
client_python
prometheus.github.io › client_python › instrumenting › counter
Counter | client_python
April 9, 2026 - from prometheus_client import Counter c = Counter('my_failures', 'Description of counter') c.inc() # Increment by 1 c.inc(1.6) # Increment by given value · If there is a suffix of _total on the metric name, it will be removed. When exposing the time series for counter, a _total suffix will be added.
OpenObserve
openobserve.ai › home › blog › prometheus metrics count basics
Prometheus Metrics Count Basics
September 26, 2025 - Prometheus is a powerful monitoring system that excels at collecting and aggregating metrics. To make sense of what it measures, Prometheus uses four main metric types: Counter → a value that only ever goes up (e.g., total HTTP requests).
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github.com › prometheus › client_python › issues › 542
Setting metric unit to "total" · Issue #542 · prometheus/client_python
May 7, 2020 - $ python3.6 Python 3.6.8 (default, Aug 7 2019, 17:28:10) [GCC 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-39)] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> from prometheus_client import Counter >>> c = Counter('my_failures', 'Description of counter', unit="total") >>> c.inc(6.6) >>> from prometheus_client import start_http_server, Summary >>> start_http_server(8000) $ curl localhost:8000/metrics ...
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github.com › PayU › prometheus-api-metrics
GitHub - PayU/prometheus-api-metrics: API and process monitoring with Prometheus for Node.js micro-service · GitHub
Create new metric from the kind that you like · const checkoutsTotal = new Prometheus.Counter({ name: 'checkouts_total', help: 'Total number of checkouts', labelNames: ['payment_method'] }); Update it: checkoutsTotal.inc({ payment_method: paymentMethod }) The custom metrics will be exposed under the same endpoint as the API metrics.
Author: PayU
Prometheus
prometheus.io › docs › concepts › metric_types
Metric types | Prometheus
Similar to a histogram, a summary samples observations (usually things like request durations and response sizes). While it also provides a total count of observations and a sum of all observed values, it calculates configurable quantiles over a sliding time window. A summary with a base metric name of <basename> exposes multiple time series during a scrape:
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What you need is the increase() function, that will calculate the difference between the counter values at the start and at the end of the specified time interval. It also correctly handles counter resets during that time period (if any).
increase(http_requests_total[24h])
If you have multiple counters http_requests_total (e.g. from multiple instances) and you need to get the cumulative count of requests, use the sum() operator:
sum(increase(http_requests_total[24h]))
See also my answer to that part of the question about using Grafana's time range selection in queries.
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SO won't let me comment on Yoory's answer so I have to make a new one...
In Grafana 5.3, they introduced $__range for Prometheus that's easier to use:
sum(rate(http_requests_total[$__range]))
This variable represents the range for the current dashboard. It is calculated by to - from
http://docs.grafana.org/features/datasources/prometheus/
GitHub
github.com › eclipse › microprofile-metrics › issues › 172
Prometheus counter should end in _total, and only need _total. · Issue #172 · microprofile/microprofile-metrics
November 1, 2017 - By convention counters end in _total. The Meter does get this correct. With the meter you can drop all the gauges, as they can be calculated with rate() on the Prometheus side.
Author: microprofile
SigNoz
signoz.io › guides › how to measure total requests with prometheus - a time-based guide
How to Measure Total Requests with Prometheus - A Time-Based Guide | SigNoz
July 25, 2024 - A counter is a cumulative metric that only increases over time, resetting to zero when the process restarts. This behavior makes counters perfect for tracking total requests, as each incoming request increments the counter.
Reddit
reddit.com › r/prometheusmonitoring › how to get a total number of metrics scraped by prometheus?
r/PrometheusMonitoring on Reddit: How to get a total number of metrics scraped by Prometheus?
September 2, 2021 -
Hi,
I'm trying to troubleshoot Prometheus high memory usage. While I can view my top x metrics with high cardinality, to get an idea, I want to know the total number of metrics that prometheus is currently storing in tsdb. Is there a query that can be useful here?
Thanks In advance.
GitConnected
levelup.gitconnected.com › prometheus-counter-metrics-d6c393d86076
Working With Prometheus Counter Metrics | Level Up Coding
February 28, 2022 - Here we have the same metric but this one uses rate to measure the number of handled messages per second. ... As one would expect, these two graphs look identical, just the scales are different. Which one you should use depends on the thing you are measuring and on preference. In this example, I prefer the rate variant. I think seeing we process 6.5 messages per second is easier to interpret than seeing we are processing 390 messages per minute. The Prometheus counter is a simple metric, but one can create valuable insights by using the different PromQL functions which were designed to be used with counters.
Torsten Mandry
torstenmandry.github.io › Prometheus-Counters
Prometheus Counters and how to deal with them | Torsten Mandry
May 20, 2019 - Whenever we increment the counter, we specify the appropriate values for those labels (e.g. country='DE', payment_method='INVOICE' and shipping_method='STANDARD'). With Micrometer we do this by adding pairs of Strings containing the key and value of a label in addition to the counter name. If we query our orders_created_total metric after restarting our sample app, we no longer see only one result but many. Within the curly brackets we ignored so far, we can see the keys and values of our three labels (the other two labels job and instance are automatically added by Prometheus when scraping the values from the several targets).
GitHub
github.com › prometheus-net › prometheus-net
GitHub - prometheus-net/prometheus-net: .NET library to instrument your code with Prometheus metrics · GitHub
Nuget package for ASP.NET Core middleware and stand-alone Kestrel metrics server: prometheus-net.AspNetCore ... Counters only increase in value and reset to zero when the process restarts. private static readonly Counter ProcessedJobCount = Metrics .CreateCounter("myapp_jobs_processed_total", ...
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GitHub
github.com › prometheus › prometheus › issues › 11372
Create a metric that counts total labels per scrape · Issue #11372 · prometheus/prometheus
September 29, 2022 - Proposal If someone is running Observability as a Service and doesn't have access or knowledge of the labels per team then they can run into an issue where they are blind to the number of labels compared to the "label_limit" set in the s...
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Tigera
tigera.io › home › prometheus monitoring › prometheus metrics
Prometheus Metrics: A Practical Guide | Tigera – Creator of Calico
July 30, 2021 - A common next step is a Prometheus Grafana setup, which turns these scraped metrics into shared dashboards and visual panels. ... Counter: A cumulative metric that only goes up, or resets to 0 on restart. Used to track counts of events like requests, errors, or completed tasks (for example, http_requests_total).
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prometheus_tsdb_head_series
Just because I always forget and have to Google this, and this question is at the top. As per this answer there will likely be a variance between prometheus_tsdb_head_series & count({__name__=~".+"}) because of variations in what they consider "active", but unless you have a large variability in metric count, I'd recommend prometheus_tsdb_head_series because if you have a lot of metrics, it's a lot faster to query.
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How about count({__name__=~".+"})?
It does return number of time series in the database. I compared with amount of metrics currently exposed by each target by manual scrapping, and it matches it +/- 10%. I guess the difference is due to some targets that I had in the past and now they are offline.