Conclusion

In this lesson, you covered the different kinds of metric you can find in OpenTelemetry, how they behave and how to understand them.

You learned that all OpenTelemetry Metrics are meant to consider time in how they operate:

• Gauges are continuous values.
• Counters represent the changes over time.
• Histograms represent the changes in the distribution of values over time.

In the next lesson, you’ll cover the logging capabilities in OpenTelemetry