alue.</p></td></tr><tr id=google-api-MetricDescriptor-MetricKind-DELTA><td><code>DELTA</code></td><td><p>The change in a value during a time interval.</p></td></tr><tr id=google-api-MetricDescriptor-MetricKind-CUMULATIVE><td><code>CUMULATIVE</code></td><td><p>A value accumulated over a time interval. Cumulative
measurements in a time series should have the same start time
and increasing end times, until an event resets the cumulative
value to zero and sets a new start time for the following
points.</p></td>