From 11d996639ed24499edd9bff55607ed787c316950 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jonathan Milgrom Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2022 04:02:23 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Introduce the term "node" (#2793) Node appears throughout the documentation. Helpful to expressly place the term "node" with the hierarchal tree/series to better illuminate concepts like groupByNode. --- docs/terminology.rst | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/terminology.rst b/docs/terminology.rst index 8bc2db4e1..06e4cba43 100644 --- a/docs/terminology.rst +++ b/docs/terminology.rst @@ -18,6 +18,9 @@ terms mean in the context of Graphite. metric series See :term:`series` + + node + An element of the name of a :term:`series` separated by periods (``.``). precision See :term:`resolution` @@ -35,7 +38,7 @@ terms mean in the context of Graphite. 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``