')`: Transforms less-based histogram buckets to meter system histogram buckets.
+`le` parameter represents the tag name of the bucket.
+
+**Note** In SkyWalking, the histogram buckets are based on time and will be transformed to the `milliseconds-based`
+histogram buckets in the meter system. (If the metrics from the Prometheus are based on the `seconds-based` histogram
+buckets, will multiply the bucket value by 1000.)
+
+#### histogram_percentile
+`histogram_percentile([])`: Represents the meter-system to calculate the p-percentile (0 ≤ p ≤ 100) from the buckets.
+
+#### time
+`time()`: Returns the number of seconds since January 1, 1970 UTC.
+
+#### foreach
+`forEach([string_array], Closure each)`: Iterates all samples according to the first array argument, and provide two parameters in the second closure argument:
+1. `element`: element in the array.
+2. `tags`: tags in each sample.
+
+## Down Sampling Operation
+MAL should instruct meter-system on how to downsample for metrics. It doesn't only refer to aggregate raw samples to
+`minute` level, but also expresses data from `minute` in higher levels, such as `hour` and `day`.
+
+Down sampling function is called `downsampling` in MAL, and it accepts the following types:
+
+ - AVG
+ - SUM
+ - LATEST
+ - SUM_PER_MIN
+ - MIN
+ - MAX
+ - MEAN (TODO)
+ - COUNT (TODO)
+
+The default type is `AVG`.
+
+If users want to get the latest time from `last_server_state_sync_time_in_seconds`:
+
+```
+last_server_state_sync_time_in_seconds.tagEqual('production', 'catalog').downsampling(LATEST)
+```
+
+## Metric level function
+
+They extract level relevant labels from metric labels, then informs the meter-system the level and [layer](../../../oap-server/server-core/src/main/java/org/apache/skywalking/oap/server/core/analysis/Layer.java) to which this metric belongs.
+
+ - `service([svc_label1, svc_label2...], Layer)` extracts service level labels from the array argument, extracts layer from `Layer` argument.
+ - `instance([svc_label1, svc_label2...], [ins_label1, ins_label2...], Layer, Closure