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fix time duration unit #3124

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fix time duration unit #3124

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6 changes: 3 additions & 3 deletions docs/sources/clients/promtail/stages/metrics.md
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Expand Up @@ -158,15 +158,15 @@ config:
type: Counter
description: "total number of log lines"
prefix: my_promtail_custom_
max_idle_duration: 1d
max_idle_duration: 24h
config:
match_all: true
action: inc
log_bytes_total:
type: Counter
description: "total bytes of log lines"
prefix: my_promtail_custom_
max_idle_duration: 1d
max_idle_duration: 24h
config:
match_all: true
count_entry_bytes: true
Expand All @@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ by using the `match_all: true` parameter.
It also creates a `log_bytes_total` counter which adds the byte size of every log line received
to the counter by using the `count_entry_bytes: true` parameter.

Those two metrics will disappear after 1d if they don't receive new entries, this is useful to reduce the building up of stage metrics.
Those two metrics will disappear after 24h if they don't receive new entries, this is useful to reduce the building up of stage metrics.

The combination of these two metric stages will give you two counters to track the volume of
every log stream in both number of lines and bytes, which can be useful in identifying sources
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