For prometheus metrics without sums, leave the sum unset #2413
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Related issue: open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib#7546
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It is not possible to implement the spec as it is currently written, since the sum cannot be computed from buckets.
The OpenMetrics histogram spec says:
We have two options for how to handle histograms without sums:
Leaving it unset is the correct way to handle this case.
cc @Aneurysm9 @jmacd