example to show the difference between "sum by" and "sum without"
@@ -218,6 +218,10 @@ number of seen HTTP requests per application and group over all instances via:
sum(http_requests_total) without (instance)
+Which is equivalent to:
+
+ sum(http_requests_total) by (application, group)
+
If we are just interested in the total of HTTP requests we have seen in **all**
applications, we could simply write:
