On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 12:39 AM, Isuru Perera <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Indika,
>
> Yes, this is a known issue when using the exponentially-decaying reservoir
> and when we see the problem clearly when we display the data in a time
> series chart.
>
> In order to provide a solution, we need to implement a different reservoir
> for metrics and we can use a project like HdrHistogram [1]. I'm planning to
> include a new reservoir implementation in Carbon Metrics 2.1.0, which is
> based on Carbon Kernel 5.1.0.
>
> Do you want this problem to be fixed in Carbon 4.x based release?
>
Yes. Because we are going to release analytics-mb along with message broker
3.2.0 which is based on carbon 4.x.

>
> [1] https://github.com/HdrHistogram/HdrHistogram
>
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 7:13 PM, Indika Sampath <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Isuru,
>>
>> We were encounter there is an issue with timer stats in carbon-metrics
>> due to its default reservoir which is exponentially decaying reservoir. As
>> per the doc, it says A histogram with an exponentially decaying reservoir
>> produces quantiles which are representative of (roughly) the last five
>> minutes of data. Same issue mentioned in links [1][2] as well and they have
>> provided some workaround to mitigate the issue. It would be great if you
>> could provide a fix for this?
>>
>> [1] http://taint.org/2014/01/16/145944a.html
>> [2] https://blog.filippo.io/understanding-metrics
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> --
>> Indika Sampath
>> Senior Software Engineer
>> WSO2 Inc.
>> http://wso2.com
>>
>> Phone: +94 716 424 744
>> Blog: http://indikasampath.blogspot.com/
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Isuru Perera
> Associate Technical Lead | WSO2, Inc. | http://wso2.com/
> Lean . Enterprise . Middleware
>
> about.me/chrishantha
> Contact: +IsuruPereraWSO2 <https://www.google.com/+IsuruPereraWSO2/about>
>



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http://wso2.com

Phone: +94 716 424 744
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