[ANN] Easy-to-use Histogram has been added to github.com/VictoriaMetrics/metrics package

[Aliaksandr Valialkin]

If you don't instrument your Go apps with custom metrics exported via Prometheus format, then stop reading.

Prometheus histograms have multiple long-standing issues, which limit histograms usability:

- How to choose the ultimate set of histogram buckets that cover all the value ranges with enough precision?

- How to limit the number of histogram buckets in order to reduce the total number of time series that needs to be stored in Prometheus (aka "high cardinality" issue)?

- How to compute quantiles and build heatmaps across multiple histograms with different set of buckets?

All these issues are solved with Histogram from github.com/VictoriaMetrics/metrics package. This article contains more details.

[Tamás Gulácsi]

Nice!

Thanks for this simple and easy to use metric client library!