Re: RFC: metric labels as first-class PCP concept

----- Original Message -----
> [...]
> >> - In terms of data modeling, labels are inherently a server side
> >> concept - not a client side concept (i.e. we would not want to try
> >> to implement this along the lines of derived metrics, which are
> >> entirely client-side).
> > I'm not sure what that means.  Naturally, labels originate from the
> > server.  But what implementation option do you mean to exclude by
> > saying that it's "server side, not client side"?

(oh, missed this)  Not excluding anything, I was talking about the PCP
low level implementation, where labels are fundamentally core metric
metadata like other pmDesc attributes.  ("entirely" was the key word)

> Hm, good point, it might be desirable for client tools to append/modify
> their own labels to metrics [...]

Yep, I certainly expect higher-level tools to want to apply more, custom,
end-user labels.

cheers.

--
Nathan

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