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new 658832efe5 Improve downsampling documentation (#13880)
658832efe5 is described below
commit 658832efe5ce8e93414a1afbf575be308006d449
Author: somil jain <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Sat May 23 13:00:12 2026 +0530
Improve downsampling documentation (#13880)
---
docs/en/changes/changes.md | 1 +
docs/en/concepts-and-designs/mal.md | 16 ++++++++--------
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/en/changes/changes.md b/docs/en/changes/changes.md
index ef2c809d90..b2804f1359 100644
--- a/docs/en/changes/changes.md
+++ b/docs/en/changes/changes.md
@@ -291,5 +291,6 @@
* Update LAL documentation with `sourceAttribute()` function and `layer: auto`
mode.
* Add iOS app monitoring setup documentation.
* Add WeChat / Alipay Mini Program monitoring setup documentation, plus a
client-side-monitoring section in the security guide covering public-internet
ingress (OTLP + `/v3/segments`) for mobile / browser / mini-program SDKs.
+* Improve downsampling documentation
All issues and pull requests are
[here](https://github.com/apache/skywalking/issues?q=milestone:11.0.0)
diff --git a/docs/en/concepts-and-designs/mal.md
b/docs/en/concepts-and-designs/mal.md
index f050c3aee7..85373db6dd 100644
--- a/docs/en/concepts-and-designs/mal.md
+++ b/docs/en/concepts-and-designs/mal.md
@@ -303,14 +303,14 @@ MAL should instruct meter-system on how to downsample for
metrics. It doesn't on
Down sampling function is called `downsampling` in MAL, and it accepts the
following types:
- - AVG
- - SUM
- - LATEST
- - SUM_PER_MIN
- - MIN
- - MAX
- - MEAN (TODO)
- - COUNT (TODO)
+- `AVG`: Calculates the average value of the samples.
+- `SUM`: Calculates the total sum of the samples.
+- `LATEST`: Selects the most recent sample value.
+- `SUM_PER_MIN`: Calculates the sum of the samples specifically per minute.
+- `MIN`: Selects the minimum sample value.
+- `MAX`: Selects the maximum sample value.
+- `MEAN`: Calculates the mathematical mean of all sample values.
+- `COUNT`: Computes the total number of metric data points or events recorded.
The default type is `AVG`.
