New question #213347 on Graphite:
https://answers.launchpad.net/graphite/+question/213347
Whilst being kind of a novice with graphite, I have managed to set it up on a
dedicated machine along with statsd and got it working as I want, but this
confuses me:
I have a number of places in my application where I would like to keep track of
the total amount of things whilst still retaining time-based data. For example
- total signups since day 0, as well as signups per minute/hour/whatever.
My first idea was to increment a counter named "users.total" on user signup,
but when opening graphite and looking at it I see what I believe is increments
per time unit, unless I'm completely misunderstanding it.
To work around this, I tried to apply different modifiers inside graphite -
"sum", "hitcount" and "integral, but neither seems to be able to get a nice
total sum over time - Integral is close except that it always has the zero on
the left side, making it impossible to zoom in on an area and spot specific
changes between dates.
Sure, I could do the equivalent of COUNT("users") in my database and storing it
as a gauge datatype, but It would be much nicer to use the already available
counter.
What can I do here?
Please bear in mind that I have little milage with Graphite & statsd yet.
Thanks in advance!
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