YES Kelvin is the standard unit.
On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 9:12 AM Tom Wilkie <[email protected]> wrote: > YES > > On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 8:13 AM Ben Kochie <[email protected]> wrote: > >> YES >> >> On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 8:52 PM Bjoern Rabenstein <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Dear Prometheans, >>> >>> So far, we have recommended Celsius as the base unit for temperatures, >>> despite Kelvin being the SI unit. That was well justified by the >>> overwhelming majority of use cases, where Kelvin would be just >>> weird. I'd really like to see more scientific usage of Prometheus, so >>> I was never super happy with that recommendation, but since it was >>> just a recommendation, I could live with it. >>> >>> Now Matt Layher came up with another, more technical use case: color >>> temperature. Here, using Celsius would be even weirder. So there is a >>> case where you clearly do not want to follow the suggestion of the >>> linter, which is more in line with typical Prometheus use cases than >>> my arguably somewhat far fetched time series for low-temperature >>> experiments. >>> >>> Therefore, Matt suggested to make the metrics linter not complain >>> about kelvin. >>> >>> I think this is a clearly defined problem with clear arguments and a >>> clear disagreement between Brian Brazil on the one side and Matt and >>> myself on the other side. The appropriate amount of effort has been >>> spent to find a consensus. All arguments can be found in >>> https://github.com/prometheus/client_golang/pull/761 and >>> https://github.com/prometheus/docs/pull/1648 . >>> >>> I hereby call a vote for the following proposal: >>> >>> Allow Kelvin as a base unit in certain cases and update our >>> documented recommendation and the linter code accordingly. >>> >>> >>> (The changes may take the form of the two PRs out there, but the vote >>> in about the general idea above, not the implementation detail.) >>> >>> >>> The vote closes on 2020-06-04 20:00 UTC. >>> -- >>> Björn Rabenstein >>> [PGP-ID] 0x851C3DA17D748D03 >>> [email] [email protected] >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Prometheus Developers" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-developers/20200528185216.GK2326%40jahnn >>> . >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Prometheus Developers" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-developers/CABbyFmrynK5YGgw10%2BdwoA1_2kQO0RegD3AY27oNRZwJy9oqYg%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-developers/CABbyFmrynK5YGgw10%2BdwoA1_2kQO0RegD3AY27oNRZwJy9oqYg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Prometheus Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-developers/CAB58Z11Kgy-QJB%3D-2nqfY%2BV4hHxjBp5nJXeCuKcbaE5BL41cZw%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-developers/CAB58Z11Kgy-QJB%3D-2nqfY%2BV4hHxjBp5nJXeCuKcbaE5BL41cZw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prometheus Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-developers/CAMV%3D_gYNBDBSQOwp-pTPcrMPXe1asgas4JEGQ5DKjzg-iX5ihw%40mail.gmail.com.
