FromCollection creates a collector from a collection configuration stored in the database.

New creates a collector with the given name.

Counter is a cumulative metric that represents a single monotonically increasing value.

Gauge is a metric that represents a single numerical value that can arbitrarily go up and down.

Undefined is for metrics not currently supported.

A Collector retrieves all the metric values for all the gauges and counters configured.

MetricKind specify the type of the metric: counter or gauge.