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Introduce the term "node" (#2793)
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Node appears throughout the documentation. Helpful to expressly place the term "node" with the hierarchal tree/series to better illuminate concepts like groupByNode.
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jbmilgrom authored Dec 22, 2022
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metric series
See :term:`series`

node
An element of the name of a :term:`series` separated by periods (``.``).

precision
See :term:`resolution`
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series
A named set of datapoints. A series is identified by a unique name, which is composed of
elements separated by periods (``.``) which are used to display the collection of series
elements (each, a :term:`node`) separated by periods (``.``) which are used to display the collection of series
into a hierarchical tree. A series storing system load average on a server called ``apache02``
in datacenter ``metro_east`` might be named as ``metro_east.servers.apache02.system.load_average``

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