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diff --git a/vendor/go.opencensus.io/stats/view/doc.go b/vendor/go.opencensus.io/stats/view/doc.go new file mode 100644 index 000000000..dced225c3 --- /dev/null +++ b/vendor/go.opencensus.io/stats/view/doc.go @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +// Copyright 2017, OpenCensus Authors +// +// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); +// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. +// You may obtain a copy of the License at +// +// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 +// +// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software +// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, +// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. +// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and +// limitations under the License. +// + +// Package view contains support for collecting and exposing aggregates over stats. +// +// In order to collect measurements, views need to be defined and registered. +// A view allows recorded measurements to be filtered and aggregated. +// +// All recorded measurements can be grouped by a list of tags. +// +// OpenCensus provides several aggregation methods: Count, Distribution and Sum. +// +// Count only counts the number of measurement points recorded. +// Distribution provides statistical summary of the aggregated data by counting +// how many recorded measurements fall into each bucket. +// Sum adds up the measurement values. +// LastValue just keeps track of the most recently recorded measurement value. +// All aggregations are cumulative. +// +// Views can be registerd and unregistered at any time during program execution. +// +// Libraries can define views but it is recommended that in most cases registering +// views be left up to applications. +// +// Exporting +// +// Collected and aggregated data can be exported to a metric collection +// backend by registering its exporter. +// +// Multiple exporters can be registered to upload the data to various +// different back ends. +package view // import "go.opencensus.io/stats/view" + +// TODO(acetechnologist): Add a link to the language independent OpenCensus +// spec when it is available. |