diff --git a/docs/AGGREGATORS_AND_PROCESSORS.md b/docs/AGGREGATORS_AND_PROCESSORS.md index 9cbc39381..4b5c9f1a6 100644 --- a/docs/AGGREGATORS_AND_PROCESSORS.md +++ b/docs/AGGREGATORS_AND_PROCESSORS.md @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ all metrics or adding a tag to all metrics that pass through. ### Aggregator Aggregator plugins, on the other hand, are a bit more complicated. Aggregators are typically for emitting new _aggregate_ metrics, such as a running mean, -minimum, maximum, quantiles, or standard deviation. For this reason, all _aggregator_ +minimum, maximum, or standard deviation. For this reason, all _aggregator_ plugins are configured with a `period`. The `period` is the size of the window of metrics that each _aggregate_ represents. In other words, the emitted _aggregate_ metric will be the aggregated value of the past `period` seconds.