Global counters for all users?

[SibertJabbla]

Hi,

I'm experimenting with opentelemetry and prometheus. Say I would like to know how many times the application has been started today for all users aggregated (e.g. if user 1 runs it twice, and user 2 four times, I want to see "The application has been run 6 times today"). I have got counter working, but the value stays '1' in the prometheus dashboard, no matter how many times I run the code.

Am I understanding the use of the telemetry wrong or am I missing something?