Support Distribution type

[pragmaticivan]

Summaries are not enough because histogram and percentile functions would not be supported.

[iamemilio]

Could you give more specific details about what changes you would like to see?

[pragmaticivan]

Could you suggest what details you might need?

The distribution data type is supported by new relic and that is the only metric type that is supposed to work well with histogram() and percentile() functions.

In order to create that type (which is not listed in this SDK) a new type would need to be added and the accumulators in-memory to produce the values would need to be created.

[noam-ma-ma]

The current Summary type is limited, Distribution will help us greatly into adopting this library

[iamemilio]

This library is something the go team still maintains, but with our current issue backlog, it may take some time for us to get around to this. Have you considered using openTelemetry and sending the data to New Relic's OTEL endpoint instead?