So far, we've named counters either:

* &lt;plural&gt;_total
* &lt;singular&gt;_count

...which I think sounds a bit more natural. So for example, this would then be either:

* ent_requests_total or
* ent_request_count

Maybe we should also standardize on "_count" vs. "_total" at some point, but currently we use a mix of the two in different places.