Proposal

Because of issues with Prometheus remote writers, it's ideal that we follow Prometheus suffix conventions for counters. If not followed strictly, external vendors supporting Prometheus remote writers might receive the metric as a Gauge instead.

Context:

• https://prometheus.io/docs/practices/naming/
• https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/infrastructure/prometheus-integrations/install-configure-remote-write/set-your-prometheus-remote-write-integration/#mapping
• Consider (optionally?) enforcing certain metric naming conventions prometheus/client_golang#725
• https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/pull/3992/filesPrometheus

Use-Case

Vendors such as newrelic can use Prometheus metrics via remote writer properly.

Is this a feature you are interested in implementing yourself?

Maybe

Anything else?

No response