| Name | Description |
| absolute |
A value that represents a level or state of the counter. An example is uptime,
which is always the number of seconds since startup.
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| delta |
A value that reports the change that happened during the last sample period.
|
| rate |
A normalized amount of change that can be compared regardless of the sampling
interval over which it is collected. An example of a rate value is the number
of reads per second.
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