Plugging for additional functionality -- it would also be ridiculously cool is if we had the ability to count uniques (sets in the etsy statsd implementation).
~Matt Walker Wikimedia Foundation Fundraising Technology Team On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Matthew Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > Can you help me understand what the weird behavior you are seeing with >> counters is? I'm pretty familiar with statsd types overall so I can tell >> you if this would solve the issue. > > > Simply, metrics like "ocg.pdftest_counter:1|c" do not count, instead it > keeps the last sent value and persists that. It's behaving like a gauge. > The work around is to use the meter metric type. Which provides the 'counts > / period' stats I'm actually looking for as well as the absolute count. > > This version also comes with some timer niceties which would easy to amend >> / append to. It would be good to lock down the use case here to make sure >> things will work as you hope. >> > > I'm happy with the current timer implementation gives us (though arguably > it's actually acting as the histogram type). Essentially, I'm going to be > looking for the mean time, the stddev, and some sort of top range 95%/99% > information. > >
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