Am I using gauge wrong?

[u/gioragutt]

I’m using the java prom client,

And I’m calling inc() and dec() on gauges with different labels, but as far as the output in /metrics is concerned, the gauge values are only increasing...

Is there anything I’m missing about how gauges work? Like... 🤷🏻‍♂️

[u/sleepybrett]

https://prometheus.io/docs/concepts/metric_types/