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Cumulative to Delta Processor

OpenTelemetry Collector processor · contrib distribution

The cumulative to delta processor (cumulativetodeltaprocessor) converts monotonic sum, histogram, and exponential histogram metrics from cumulative to delta aggregation temporality. Non-monotonic sums are excluded. Delta metrics are excluded from any conversion and forwarded without changes.

  • Component ID: contrib-cumulativetodeltaprocessor
  • Name: cumulativetodeltaprocessor
  • Type: processor
  • Distribution: contrib
  • Repository: opentelemetry-collector-contrib

Stability

LevelSignals
betametrics

Attributes

AttributeTypeDescription
metric_typestringThe pdata metric type of the datapoint.
reasonstringThe reason a datapoint was dropped instead of converted.

Data

  • JSON: /data/collector/components/contrib-cumulativetodeltaprocessor/contrib-cumulativetodeltaprocessor-32a4bfdce575.json
  • Explore: /collector/components/contrib/cumulativetodeltaprocessor