MetricMetadata
A single metric observed on a context graph node.
Contents
- attributes
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Per-metric qualifying attributes used to query this metric's telemetry. Keys are the metric store's own label names, not bare OTel attribute names: service identity arrives as "@resource.service.name" and "@resource.service.namespace", and the instrumentation scope as "@instrumentation.@name", while span-derived metrics label the service as a bare "service.name". Cloud provider, account and region are not repeated per metric — read those from the node. Values are RAW, deliberately NOT the node's normalized or merged identity, so a selector built from them matches the emitted series. A merged node can carry different values per metric, which is why these live here rather than on the node.
Type: String to string map
Map Entries: Minimum number of 0 items. Maximum number of 50 items.
Required: No
- metricType
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OTel metric kind: "gauge", "sum", "histogram", "exponential_histogram", or "summary" (CloudWatch-vended metrics carry the same kinds). Absent when the producer did not report one.
Type: String
Required: No
- name
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The metric name as emitted, such as "Duration".
Type: String
Required: No
- preferredStat
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The statistic to chart or alarm on, such as "p99" or "Sum". Free-form and frequently absent.
Type: String
Required: No
- semantics
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What the metric means and the unit it is reported in.
Type: MetricSemantics object
Required: No
See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following: