Histogram metric visualizations that use Average do not work
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Description
This should be supported, but seems to not be. Using the Average with a histogram yields a confusingly named quantile error:
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the issue described in the report: use the Average aggregation with a histogram metric visualization and observe the quantile error. Trace the metric visualization handling to find where this combination is rejected or mislabeled. Done means Average works with histograms without producing the confusing quantile error.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- data-visualization, observability-sre
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100