[Prometheus]: Mark ALERTS synthetic metric as a gauge (#99328)

Mark ALERTS synthetic metric as a gauge It's not a counter. It can go down in value, but counters cannot
2025-01-22 10:50:33 +00:00
parent 4b8e6b3401
commit 97db8b19c7
2 changed files with 2 additions and 2 deletions
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ describe('parseSelector()', () => {
 describe('fixSummariesMetadata', () => {
  const synthetics = {
    ALERTS: {
-      type: 'counter',
+      type: 'gauge',
      help: 'Time series showing pending and firing alerts. The sample value is set to 1 as long as the alert is in the indicated active (pending or firing) state.',
    },
  };
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ export function fixSummariesMetadata(metadata: { [metric: string]: PromMetricsMe
  // Synthetic series
  const syntheticMetadata: PromMetricsMetadata = {};
  syntheticMetadata['ALERTS'] = {
-    type: 'counter',
+    type: 'gauge',
    help: 'Time series showing pending and firing alerts. The sample value is set to 1 as long as the alert is in the indicated active (pending or firing) state.',
  };