Metric description for `http.client.request.duration` does not match the spec

[vishweshbankwar]

Description

Metric description on http.client.request.duration does not match the spec description
https://github.com/open-telemetry/semantic-conventions/blob/main/docs/http/http-metrics.md#metric-httpclientrequestduration

Name	Instrument Type	Unit (UCUM)	Description
http.client.request.duration	Histogram	s	Duration of HTTP client requests.

Src link:

runtime/src/libraries/System.Net.Http/src/System/Net/Http/Metrics/MetricsHandler.cs

Lines 29 to 32 in b09e18e

	_requestsDuration = meter.CreateHistogram<double>(
	"http.client.request.duration",
	unit: "s",
	description: "The duration of outbound HTTP requests.");

Reproduction Steps

NA

Expected behavior

Description matches with spec

Actual behavior

Description does not match

Regression?

No response

Known Workarounds

No response

Configuration

No response

Other information

No response

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Issue Details

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Description

Metric description on http.client.request.duration does not match the spec description

Name	Instrument Type	Unit (UCUM)	Description
http.client.request.duration	Histogram	s	Duration of HTTP client requests.

Src link:

runtime/src/libraries/System.Net.Http/src/System/Net/Http/Metrics/MetricsHandler.cs

Lines 29 to 32 in b09e18e

	_requestsDuration = meter.CreateHistogram<double>(
	"http.client.request.duration",
	unit: "s",
	description: "The duration of outbound HTTP requests.");

Reproduction Steps

NA

Expected behavior

Description matches with spec

Actual behavior

Description does not match

Regression?

No response

Known Workarounds

No response

Configuration

No response

Other information

No response

Author:	vishweshbankwar
Assignees:	-
Labels:	area-System.Net.Http
Milestone:	-

[danmoseley]

Cc @JamesNK

[JamesNK]

Worth changing but low priority. Can happen in 9.

[MihaZupan]

Triage: We should update the description to match the spec, but the current wording is also understandable, so this can happen anytime. Marking it as up for grabs since it should be a trivial change.

[danmoseley]

Want to offer the PR @vishweshbankwar ?

[vishweshbankwar]

opened #94061.