Prometheus: Allow changing metric names by default when translating f…

…rom Prometheus to OpenTelemetry
open-telemetry · Aug 30, 2023 · 5ebe65b · 5ebe65b
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diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -39,6 +39,9 @@ release.
 
 - OpenTracing Shim: Allow invalid but sampled SpanContext to be returned.
   ([#3471](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/pull/3471))
+- Prometheus: Allow changing metric names by default when translating from Prometheus to OpenTelemetry.
+  ([#3679](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/pull/3679))
+
 
 ### SDK Configuration
 

diff --git a/specification/compatibility/prometheus_and_openmetrics.md b/specification/compatibility/prometheus_and_openmetrics.md
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ OpenTelemetry metric data. Since OpenMetrics has a superset of Prometheus' types
 ### Metric Metadata
 
 The [OpenMetrics MetricFamily Name](https://github.com/OpenObservability/OpenMetrics/blob/main/specification/OpenMetrics.md#metricfamily)
-MUST be added as the Name of the OTLP metric.  By default, the name MUST be unaltered, but translation SHOULD provide configuration which, when enabled, removes type (e.g. `_total`) and unit (e.g. `_seconds`) suffixes.
+MUST be added as the Name of the OTLP metric.  By default, the name SHOULD be unaltered, but translation SHOULD provide configuration which, when enabled, removes type (e.g. `_total`) and unit (e.g. `_seconds`) suffixes.
 
 The [OpenMetrics UNIT metadata](https://github.com/OpenObservability/OpenMetrics/blob/main/specification/OpenMetrics.md#metricfamily),
 if present, MUST be converted to the unit of the OTLP metric.  The unit SHOULD