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docs: add guideline regarding units in names (#481)
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** Exceptions can be made, when the name used for the concept is too strongly
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in favor of the abbreviation.
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Example: `ip` fields, or field sets such as `os`, `geo`.
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* *Avoid declaring units*
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** So that we don't conflict with aspirations in https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/31244,
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avoid specifying units such as "bytes" or "sec". Until Elasticsearch and/or Kibana have
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native support for such units, we will either rely on documentation or hard-code knowledge of
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units for specific fields into Kibana.

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