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Each node stores histograms as running totals since it started. A sample
didn't say which node wrote it (the node was only in the id's low bits),
so a reader couldn't diff totals per node, and the console diffed across
nodes: on the three-node production cluster the delivery attempt time
read 14.7 s over the last hour against 0.7 s from the nodes' own figures.
x:Metric/get now returns nodeId alongside timestamp, both from the id.
The telemetry suite checks every sample carries it.