Prometheus compatibility: don't add duplicate _total suffixes #3581
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Clarifies that _total does not need to be added as a suffix to counters if it already exists. There was confusion in open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java#5304 (comment) if that was correct or not.
cc @open-telemetry/wg-prometheus @jack-berg