diff --git a/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/AllocationsProvider.cpp b/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/AllocationsProvider.cpp
index c733a10d29c2..39ba338bc662 100644
--- a/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/AllocationsProvider.cpp
+++ b/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/AllocationsProvider.cpp
@@ -26,14 +26,14 @@
 
 std::vector<SampleValueType> AllocationsProvider::SampleTypeDefinitions(
     {
-        {"alloc-samples", "count"},
-        {"alloc-size", "bytes"}
+        {"alloc-samples", "count", -1},
+        {"alloc-size", "bytes", -1}
     }
 );
 
 std::vector<SampleValueType> AllocationsProvider::FrameworkSampleTypeDefinitions(
     {
-        {"alloc-samples", "count"},
+        {"alloc-samples", "count", -1},
     }
 );
 
diff --git a/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/ContentionProvider.cpp b/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/ContentionProvider.cpp
index 29101e33b413..eda95b15e2a3 100644
--- a/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/ContentionProvider.cpp
+++ b/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/ContentionProvider.cpp
@@ -26,8 +26,8 @@ std::vector<uintptr_t> ContentionProvider::_emptyStack;
 
 std::vector<SampleValueType> ContentionProvider::SampleTypeDefinitions(
     {
-        {"lock-count", "count"},
-        {"lock-time", "nanoseconds"}
+        {"lock-count", "count", -1},
+        {"lock-time", "nanoseconds", -1}
     });
 
 ContentionProvider::ContentionProvider(
diff --git a/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/CpuTimeProvider.cpp b/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/CpuTimeProvider.cpp
index 5b80fb5a79e7..29fc68266774 100644
--- a/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/CpuTimeProvider.cpp
+++ b/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/CpuTimeProvider.cpp
@@ -13,9 +13,8 @@
 
 std::vector<SampleValueType> CpuTimeProvider::SampleTypeDefinitions(
 {
-    {"cpu", "nanoseconds"},
-    {"cpu-samples", "count"}
-}
+    {"cpu", "nanoseconds", -1},
+    {"cpu-samples", "count", -1}}
 );
 
 CpuTimeProvider::CpuTimeProvider(
diff --git a/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/ExceptionsProvider.cpp b/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/ExceptionsProvider.cpp
index 20b3149182d3..a2e4a53ce4b9 100644
--- a/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/ExceptionsProvider.cpp
+++ b/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/ExceptionsProvider.cpp
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 
 std::vector<SampleValueType> ExceptionsProvider::SampleTypeDefinitions(
     {
-        {"exception", "count"}
+        {"exception", "count", -1}
     });
 
 ExceptionsProvider::ExceptionsProvider(
diff --git a/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/GarbageCollectionProvider.cpp b/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/GarbageCollectionProvider.cpp
index a9322675aed3..8019d973cdf8 100644
--- a/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/GarbageCollectionProvider.cpp
+++ b/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/GarbageCollectionProvider.cpp
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ GarbageCollectionProvider::GarbageCollectionProvider(
     :
     CollectorBase<RawGarbageCollectionSample>("GarbageCollectorProvider", valueTypeProvider.GetOrRegister(TimelineSampleType::Definitions), rawSampleTransformer, memoryResource)
 {
+
     _gen0CountMetric = metricsRegistry.GetOrRegister<CounterMetric>("dotnet_gc_gen0");
     _gen1CountMetric = metricsRegistry.GetOrRegister<CounterMetric>("dotnet_gc_gen1");
     _gen2CountMetric = metricsRegistry.GetOrRegister<CounterMetric>("dotnet_gc_gen2");
diff --git a/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/LiveObjectsProvider.cpp b/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/LiveObjectsProvider.cpp
index 63f102bc840f..ff6632525f77 100644
--- a/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/LiveObjectsProvider.cpp
+++ b/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/LiveObjectsProvider.cpp
@@ -16,8 +16,8 @@
 
 std::vector<SampleValueType> LiveObjectsProvider::SampleTypeDefinitions(
 {
-    {"inuse-objects", "count"},
-    {"inuse-space", "bytes"}
+    {"inuse-objects", "count", -1},
+    {"inuse-space", "bytes", -1}
 });
 
 const uint32_t MAX_LIVE_OBJECTS = 1024;
diff --git a/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/LiveObjectsProvider.h b/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/LiveObjectsProvider.h
index 7e1b6a863be0..61a02206bc08 100644
--- a/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/LiveObjectsProvider.h
+++ b/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/LiveObjectsProvider.h
@@ -76,7 +76,8 @@ class LiveObjectsProvider : public ServiceBase,
     bool StopImpl() override;
 
 private:
-
+     // used to access the CLR to create weak handles
+     // and get object generation
     ICorProfilerInfo13* _pCorProfilerInfo = nullptr;
     RawSampleTransformer* _rawSampleTransformer = nullptr;
 
diff --git a/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/NativeThreadsCpuProviderBase.h b/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/NativeThreadsCpuProviderBase.h
index c37e32453498..e3ea6bc6494e 100644
--- a/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/NativeThreadsCpuProviderBase.h
+++ b/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/NativeThreadsCpuProviderBase.h
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ class NativeThreadsCpuProviderBase : public ISamplesProvider
     virtual std::vector<std::shared_ptr<IThreadInfo>> const& GetThreads() = 0;
     virtual Labels GetLabels() = 0;
 
+private:
     RawSampleTransformer* _sampleTransformer;
     std::chrono::milliseconds _previousTotalCpuTime;
     std::vector<SampleValueTypeProvider::Offset> _valueOffsets;
diff --git a/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/NetworkProvider.cpp b/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/NetworkProvider.cpp
index b942b02a3182..7cfaabbf55e6 100644
--- a/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/NetworkProvider.cpp
+++ b/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/NetworkProvider.cpp
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 
 std::vector<SampleValueType> NetworkProvider::SampleTypeDefinitions(
 {
-    {"request-time", "nanoseconds"}
+    {"request-time", "nanoseconds", -1}
 });
 
 
diff --git a/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/Profile.cpp b/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/Profile.cpp
index e7ca8a064fd7..e9c62a696076 100644
--- a/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/Profile.cpp
+++ b/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/Profile.cpp
@@ -182,9 +182,14 @@ libdatadog::profile_unique_ptr CreateProfile(std::vector<SampleValueType> const&
     std::vector<ddog_prof_ValueType> samplesTypes;
     samplesTypes.reserve(valueTypes.size());
 
+    // TODO: create a vector<int32> containing the indexes of the valueTypes
+    std::vector<int32_t> indexes;
+    indexes.reserve(valueTypes.size());
+
     for (auto const& type : valueTypes)
     {
         samplesTypes.push_back(CreateValueType(type.Name, type.Unit));
+        indexes.push_back(type.Index);
     }
 
     struct ddog_prof_Slice_ValueType sample_types = {samplesTypes.data(), samplesTypes.size()};
diff --git a/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/Sample.h b/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/Sample.h
index ae28c4870514..e5be0f46e5f7 100644
--- a/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/Sample.h
+++ b/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/Sample.h
@@ -20,6 +20,11 @@ struct SampleValueType
 {
     std::string Name;
     std::string Unit;
+
+    // Samples belonging to the same provider will share the same index
+    // For libdatadog, it means that they will be stored in the same profile
+    // This value will be set when registering the SampleValueType with SampleValueTypeProvider
+    int32_t Index; // -1 means not set
 };
 
 typedef std::vector<int64_t> Values;
diff --git a/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/SampleValueTypeProvider.cpp b/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/SampleValueTypeProvider.cpp
index 2720560198bd..d10ba25a1db7 100644
--- a/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/SampleValueTypeProvider.cpp
+++ b/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/SampleValueTypeProvider.cpp
@@ -12,13 +12,16 @@ SampleValueTypeProvider::SampleValueTypeProvider()
     _sampleTypeDefinitions.reserve(16);
 }
 
-std::vector<SampleValueTypeProvider::Offset> SampleValueTypeProvider::GetOrRegister(std::vector<SampleValueType> const& valueTypes)
+std::vector<SampleValueTypeProvider::Offset> SampleValueTypeProvider::GetOrRegister(std::vector<SampleValueType>& valueTypes)
 {
     std::vector<Offset> offsets;
     offsets.reserve(valueTypes.size());
 
-    for (auto const& valueType : valueTypes)
+    for (auto& valueType : valueTypes)
     {
+        // set the same index for all
+        valueType.Index = _nextIndex;
+
         size_t idx = GetOffset(valueType);
         if (idx == -1)
         {
@@ -27,6 +30,10 @@ std::vector<SampleValueTypeProvider::Offset> SampleValueTypeProvider::GetOrRegis
         }
         offsets.push_back(idx);
     }
+
+    // the next set of SampleValueType will have a different index
+    _nextIndex++;
+
     return offsets;
 }
 
diff --git a/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/SampleValueTypeProvider.h b/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/SampleValueTypeProvider.h
index 2e4d16864c9e..50700c7e7cf2 100644
--- a/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/SampleValueTypeProvider.h
+++ b/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/SampleValueTypeProvider.h
@@ -19,11 +19,14 @@ class SampleValueTypeProvider
 
     SampleValueTypeProvider();
 
-    std::vector<Offset> GetOrRegister(std::vector<SampleValueType> const& valueType);
+    std::vector<Offset> GetOrRegister(std::vector<SampleValueType>& valueType);
     std::vector<SampleValueType> const& GetValueTypes();
 
 private:
     std::int8_t GetOffset(SampleValueType const& valueType);
 
     std::vector<SampleValueType> _sampleTypeDefinitions;
+
+    // Incremented each time a new vector of SampleValueType is registered via GetOrRegister
+    uint32_t _nextIndex = 0;
 };
diff --git a/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/TimelineSampleType.cpp b/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/TimelineSampleType.cpp
index ff47955ff5e6..379cf4f079f7 100644
--- a/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/TimelineSampleType.cpp
+++ b/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/TimelineSampleType.cpp
@@ -3,5 +3,5 @@
 
 #include "TimelineSampleType.h"
 
-const std::vector<SampleValueType> TimelineSampleType::Definitions(
-    {{"timeline", "nanoseconds"}});
\ No newline at end of file
+std::vector<SampleValueType> TimelineSampleType::Definitions(
+    {{"timeline", "nanoseconds", -1}});
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/TimelineSampleType.h b/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/TimelineSampleType.h
index a217873f6d00..20b282dea70c 100644
--- a/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/TimelineSampleType.h
+++ b/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/TimelineSampleType.h
@@ -11,5 +11,5 @@
 class TimelineSampleType
 {
 public:
-    static const std::vector<SampleValueType> Definitions;
+    static std::vector<SampleValueType> Definitions;
 };
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/WallTimeProvider.cpp b/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/WallTimeProvider.cpp
index b954513673ba..068d93dcad4d 100644
--- a/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/WallTimeProvider.cpp
+++ b/profiler/src/ProfilerEngine/Datadog.Profiler.Native/WallTimeProvider.cpp
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ class SampleValueTypeProvider;
 
 std::vector<SampleValueType> WallTimeProvider::SampleTypeDefinitions(
     {
-        {"wall", "nanoseconds"}
+        {"wall", "nanoseconds", -1}
     }
     );
 
diff --git a/profiler/test/Datadog.Profiler.Native.Tests/SampleValueTypeProviderTest.cpp b/profiler/test/Datadog.Profiler.Native.Tests/SampleValueTypeProviderTest.cpp
index c950e9ece05a..817df433a322 100644
--- a/profiler/test/Datadog.Profiler.Native.Tests/SampleValueTypeProviderTest.cpp
+++ b/profiler/test/Datadog.Profiler.Native.Tests/SampleValueTypeProviderTest.cpp
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@
 #include "gmock/gmock.h"
 #include "gtest/gtest.h"
 
-static const SampleValueType CpuValueType = {"cpu", "nanoseconds"};
-static const SampleValueType WallTimeValueType = {"walltime", "nanoseconds"};
-static const SampleValueType ExceptionValueType = {"exception", "count"};
+static SampleValueType CpuValueType = {"cpu", "nanoseconds", -1};
+static SampleValueType WallTimeValueType = {"walltime", "nanoseconds", -1};
+static SampleValueType ExceptionValueType = {"exception", "count", -1};
 
 testing::AssertionResult AreSampleValueTypeEqual(SampleValueType const& v1, SampleValueType const& v2)
 {
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ using ValueOffsets = std::vector<SampleValueTypeProvider::Offset>;
 TEST(SampleValueTypeProvider, RegisterValueTypes)
 {
     SampleValueTypeProvider provider;
-    auto const valueTypes = std::vector<SampleValueType>{CpuValueType, WallTimeValueType};
+    auto valueTypes = std::vector<SampleValueType>{CpuValueType, WallTimeValueType};
 
     auto offsets = provider.GetOrRegister(valueTypes);
 
@@ -94,4 +94,27 @@ TEST(SampleValueTypeProvider, EnsureThrowIfAddValueTypeSameNameButDifferentUnit)
     auto anotherValuetype = std::vector<SampleValueType>{{"cpu", "non-sense-unit"}};
 
     EXPECT_THROW(provider.GetOrRegister(anotherValuetype), std::runtime_error);
+}
+
+TEST(SampleValueTypeProvider, CheckSequentialIndex)
+{
+    std::vector<SampleValueType> AllocationSampleTypeDefinitions(
+        {{"alloc-samples", "count", -1},
+         {"alloc-size", "bytes", -1}});
+    std::vector<SampleValueType> ExceptionSampleTypeDefinitions(
+        {{"exception", "count", -1}});
+    std::vector<SampleValueType> CpuSampleTypeDefinitions(
+        {{"cpu", "nanoseconds", -1},
+         {"cpu-samples", "count", -1}});
+
+    SampleValueTypeProvider provider;
+    auto allocationsOffsets = provider.GetOrRegister(AllocationSampleTypeDefinitions);
+    auto exceptionOffsets = provider.GetOrRegister(ExceptionSampleTypeDefinitions);
+    auto cpuOffsets = provider.GetOrRegister(CpuSampleTypeDefinitions);
+
+    ASSERT_EQ(AllocationSampleTypeDefinitions[0].Index, 0);
+    ASSERT_EQ(AllocationSampleTypeDefinitions[1].Index, 0);
+    ASSERT_EQ(ExceptionSampleTypeDefinitions[0].Index, 1);
+    ASSERT_EQ(CpuSampleTypeDefinitions[0].Index, 2);
+    ASSERT_EQ(CpuSampleTypeDefinitions[1].Index, 2);
 }
\ No newline at end of file