nativehistogram

Overview ¶

A simple example of how to use native histograms.

Native histograms provide automatic bucketing with exponentially spaced bucket boundaries. Unlike classic histograms, there is no need to pre-define bucket boundaries -- the resolution adapts to the observed data distribution.

Native histograms require Prometheus v2.40+ with the --enable-feature=native-histograms flag. Starting with Prometheus v3, native histograms are enabled by default.

To scrape native histograms, configure Prometheus with:

scrape_configs:
  - job_name: 'example'
    scrape_protocols: ['PrometheusProto']
    static_configs:
      - targets: ['localhost:8080']