Amusingly; I just forked Steve Ivy's NodeJS client so that I could use with
txstatsd. I'd be happy to help test the install in labs if you want --
otherwise I'm content to watch this unfold from the sidelines.

Do you have an approximate eta on when we'll see this in production?

~Matt Walker
Wikimedia Foundation
Fundraising Technology Team


On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Chase Pettet <[email protected]> wrote:

>  So counters  and sets exist (and work) in the linked (proposed) deb.  Out
> of the box timers I think are lower/count (of all the timers matching that
> key)/mean/upper/upper_99.
>
> Chase
>
>
> On 6/3/14, 1:34 PM, Matthew Walker wrote:
>
> 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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