Also +1

On Sun, Mar 22, 2026 at 4:42 PM David Smiley <[email protected]> wrote:

> Sure +1.
>
> On Sat, Mar 21, 2026 at 7:17 PM Jan Høydahl <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > In 10.0 we shipped a brand new metrics system powered by OTEL
> > instrumentation. It has diferent metric names, and is not backward
> > compatible with the solr exporter from 9.x
> > We are in the process of building some Grafana boards for it, which
> > uncover needs for some changes.
> > We decided to change internal and OTLP metric names from underscore to
> dot
> > separators (https://github.com/apache/solr/pull/4223) to align with OTEL
> > semantic conventions.
> > We found two metrics that are pure duplicates with different names.
> >
> > Clearly, there is a need for some changes and stabilization of this brand
> > new feature.
> > Looking back we should have declared the feature as BETA and experimental
> > in 10.0, but we did not.
> >
> > I therefore propose that we declare it a BETA feature now, by adding a
> > disclaimer in Ref Guide and send an [ANNOUNCE] email to the lists.
> >
> > As 10.0 is still brand new and likely not yet in production many places,
> > and even fewer depending on the new metrics names, we could retroactively
> > delcare it BETA from version 10.0.
> > That will allow us to tweak things in the next few minor versions.
> Perhaps
> > we want to rename a few metrics with better names. Perhaps some need to
> > change slightly.
> >
> > It is unfortunate to do such things after a release, but it is better to
> > do it now when 19.0 is still fresh. The longer we wait the harder to
> > justify changes.
> >
> > If the PMC agrees (I don't think we need a vote), I can draft an announce
> > mail and a PR against branch_10_0 ref guide.
> >
> > Jan
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