From: Boris Ranto <branto@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 20:51:04 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: doc/prometheus: Mention the long running avg types
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doc/prometheus: Mention the long running avg types

Signed-off-by: Boris Ranto <branto@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/doc/mgr/prometheus.rst b/doc/mgr/prometheus.rst
index eb869d11872b..fc2f15fe235d 100644
--- a/doc/mgr/prometheus.rst
+++ b/doc/mgr/prometheus.rst
@@ -49,6 +49,12 @@ The *cluster* statistics (i.e. those global to the Ceph cluster)
 have labels appropriate to what they report on.  For example, 
 metrics relating to pools have a ``pool_id`` label.
 
+
+The long running averages that represent the histograms from core Ceph
+are represented by a pair of ``<name>_sum`` and ``<name>_count`` metrics.
+This is similar to how histograms are represented in `Prometheus <https://prometheus.io/docs/concepts/metric_types/#histogram>`_
+and they can also be treated `similarly <https://prometheus.io/docs/practices/histograms/>`_.
+
 Pool and OSD metadata series
 ----------------------------