{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/chronosphere/main/json-schema/chronosphere-datav1-read-metric-metadata-response-schema.json",
  "title": "datav1ReadMetricMetadataResponse",
  "description": "ReadMetricMetadataResponse contains the metadata for the requested metric.",
  "x-generated": "2026-10-03",
  "x-method": "derived",
  "x-generator": "derive-json-schema.py",
  "x-source": "openapi/chronosphere-datav1-api-openapi.yml#/components/schemas/datav1ReadMetricMetadataResponse",
  "properties": {
    "metadata": {
      "allOf": [
        {
          "$ref": "#/$defs/datav1MetricMetadata"
        }
      ],
      "description": "The metadata for the requested metric."
    }
  },
  "type": "object",
  "$defs": {
    "datav1MetricMetadata": {
      "description": "MetricMetadata contains metadata information about a metric.",
      "properties": {
        "description": {
          "description": "Human-readable description of what the metric measures.",
          "type": "string"
        },
        "name": {
          "description": "The name of the metric.",
          "type": "string"
        },
        "source": {
          "$ref": "#/$defs/datav1Source"
        },
        "type": {
          "allOf": [
            {
              "$ref": "#/$defs/datav1MetricType"
            }
          ],
          "description": "The type of the metric (counter, gauge, etc.)."
        }
      },
      "type": "object"
    },
    "datav1MetricType": {
      "description": "MetricType defines the canonical metric types supported by the platform.\n\n - CUMULATIVE_COUNTER: A Prom-style cumulative counter, which stores a strictly increasing count\nof distinct events (but may reset to zero). Each datapoint stores the\nrunning total at the given timestamp.\n - GAUGE: A true gauge, which stores an observation of state at a point in time,\nwhere it is impossible to have two different states at a single point in\ntime. Each datapoint stores the value at the given timestamp.\n - DELTA_COUNTER: A delta counter, which stores the same type of data as COUNTER, but where\neach datapoint stores a strictly positive delta increment at the given\ntimestamp.\n - MEASUREMENT: A raw observation with some discrete value, e.g. individual request\nlatency, individual request size, etc. Unlike a counter, each MEASUREMENT\nevent has a discrete value. And unlike a gauge, there can be multiple\nvalues at any point in time.\n - CUMULATIVE_EXPONENTIAL_HISTOGRAM: An exponential histogram, where each datapoint is a structured value (not a\nfloat), which stores compressed buckets of cumulative measurement counts,\nalong with total sum and count.\n - DELTA_EXPONENTIAL_HISTOGRAM: An exponential histogram, where each datapoint is a structured value (not a\nfloat), which stores compressed buckets of measurement count deltas,\nalong with total sum and count.",
      "enum": [
        "CUMULATIVE_COUNTER",
        "GAUGE",
        "DELTA_COUNTER",
        "MEASUREMENT",
        "CUMULATIVE_EXPONENTIAL_HISTOGRAM",
        "DELTA_EXPONENTIAL_HISTOGRAM"
      ],
      "type": "string"
    },
    "datav1Source": {
      "description": "Source is the wire format used to ingest the metric (maps to the __metric_source__ synthetic label).\nMetrics predating CanonicalSource tracking will have UNSPECIFIED.",
      "enum": [
        "PROMETHEUS",
        "STATSD",
        "OPEN_METRICS",
        "CARBON",
        "OPEN_TELEMETRY",
        "SIGNALFX",
        "WAVEFRONT",
        "DOGSTATSD",
        "CHRONO_GCP",
        "CLOUDWATCH_METRIC_STREAM",
        "CHRONO_AZURE",
        "TAGGED_STATSD",
        "CHRONO_CLOUDFLARE",
        "CHRONO_INTEGRATION"
      ],
      "type": "string"
    }
  }
}