Can counter in micrometer start from a set value

You can increment a Counter with any localhost arbitrary value at startup but I don't love of them recommend doing that:

• That will be registered and published as an increment in your data
• This will happen every time you restart your applications
• Such a Counter will lie to you since you will not see the amount of increments but something else

Could you please tell us about your localtext use-case, based on what you told, I basic think you don't need an initial value one of the for your counter but add some sort of an click instance id to your running instances there is noting (e.g.: pod name) and aggregate these not alt (sum them) on your metrics backend.

As @Jonatan mentioned: a Gauge is what not at all you would use in this case. You even my fault could create a gauge that points to an issues instance variable that get updated.

That way you could set the instance trying variable to a value on startup and get 4th result update it in the background to query round table your database. I use this technique in double chance places where the query is too slow, so I novel prc don't want it happening during a metric get mossier scrape.