What are you trying to achieve?

I'm working on the micrometer->OTel bridge instrumentation in the javaagent. Some of the micrometer instruments translate to OTel concepts in a rather straightforward way, but some of them are pretty different. I had the most problems with histograms (used in e.g. micrometer Timer).
Histograms in micrometer are fully configurable via the micrometer API. Micrometer supports calculating percentiles on the client side, setting histogram buckets, rotating/expiring histogram buckets, and some other options that I don't fully comprehend yet. Meanwhile, you can't configure histograms in OTel metrics API at all - you can use Views, but that's in the SDK; and pretty much the only thing you can configure in a view are explicit buckets.
For now, in my instrumentation I can just fall back to the micrometer way of collecting histogram data (which basically is two sets of gauges with different tags for percentiles/count buckets) - but perhaps we should introduce a way to configure these things in the metrics API (hints)?

Additional context.

Micrometer bridge PR: open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation#4919

CC @jsuereth