Increase, Rate and Instant Rate
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Rate vs. Increase
This function (increase) should not be confused with rate. While rate and irate calculate the speed at which a metric is increasing (the rate of change), increase measures the total increase in the value of a metric over a specified time range.
Consider the following data points:
DP0 (t0, v0)
DP1 (t1, v1)
DP2 (t2, v2)
DP3 (t3, v3)
DP4 (t4, v4)
DP5 (t5, v5)
DP6 (t6, v6)
DP7 (Observability with Prometheus and Grafana
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