Question #213347 on Graphite changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/graphite/+question/213347
Status: Open => Answered
Daniel Schauenberg proposed the following answer:
Hi,
StatsD generates a total count of counter metrics under the stats_count
namespace. You could just sum those values to get total sign-ups.
Cheers,
Daniel
On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 04:45:55PM -0000, Joakim B wrote:
>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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