Add time series histogram to the TSDB docs. #4548
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| : A cumulative metric that only monotonically increases or resets to `0` (zero). For example, a count of errors or completed tasks that resets when a serving process restarts. | ||
| : A cumulative metric that only monotonically increases or resets to `0` (zero). For example, a count of errors or completed tasks that resets when a serving process restarts. A counter is supported by all [numeric field types](elasticsearch://reference/elasticsearch/mapping-reference/number.md) |
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Is this int, long and double?
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The mapping accepts all numeric fields, I have tried scaled_float, float, byte, short. I haven't tested it end to end though, I mean index data, downsample, run ESQL queries. Do you think this is something we need to explore further?
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Just a few nits. It'd be nice to have Marci take a look too.
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LGTM with small suggestions.
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Summary
This PR is documenting the a new time series metric type that is added in
9.3the histogram. A time series metric histogram supports two types, histogram and exponential histogram. Furthermore, we document that it can be downsampled and what happens when it's downsampled with the aggregate method.The last value downsampling method will be documented in a follow up PR.
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