Metrics are the quantitative backbone of observability—the numbers that tell us how our systems are performing. This is the third post in our OpenTelemetry naming series, where we’ve already explored how to name spans and how to enrich them with meaningful attributes. Now let’s tackle the art of naming the measurements that matter. Unlike spans that tell stories about what happened, metrics tell us about quantities: how many, how fast, how much. But here’s the thing—naming them well...
