What is the problem you are trying to solve?

I was working on a customer case, where they were experiencing various discards on their metrics ingestion. One of the discard reasons was new-value-for-timestamp, that we can see in the Billing dashboard's discards section. I advised them to investigate the logs in their Alloy for this at first, and I referred to the end-user facing errors we have defined. I could not find this particular reason on the list and assumed it was too-far--in-future reason, however I could not find this particular error in the distributor logs on our side. It turns out the cause of new-value-for-timestamp was sample-duplicate-timestamp .

Which solution do you envision (roughly)?

The metrics discard reasons names are unified across the platform, so no matter where you look for the logs related to the discards (internal logs, Alloy logs), you are on the same page and the reason names are the same. The customers can easily search for their discards reasons on their side.

Have you considered any alternatives?

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Any additional context to share?

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How long do you think this would take to be developed?

Not sure

What are the documentation dependencies?

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Proposer?

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