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diff --git a/contributors/devel/sig-instrumentation/instrumentation.md b/contributors/devel/sig-instrumentation/instrumentation.md index 15569f14..b8f38e2f 100644 --- a/contributors/devel/sig-instrumentation/instrumentation.md +++ b/contributors/devel/sig-instrumentation/instrumentation.md @@ -160,8 +160,8 @@ constantly create new ones, with new names. However, they have a reasonable upper bound for a given size of infrastructure they refer to and its typical frequency of changes. -In general, “external” labels like pod or node name do not belong in the -instrumentation itself. They are to be attached to metrics by the collecting +In general, “external” labels like pod name, node name (any object name), & namespace do not belong in the +instrumentation itself (the exception being kube-state-metrics). They are to be attached to metrics by the collecting system that has the external knowledge ([blog post](https://www.robustperception.io/target-labels-are-for-life-not-just-for-christmas/)). ## Normalization |