Hi Gary, We have just started a new community site for questions just like this! If you could ask your questions in the future over at `community.influxdata.com` it will help you get answers faster!
As to your question, the collection interval is how often metrics are collected. In the above example the timestamps are `collection_interval` (5s) seconds apart. This is expected. To get more granular data set the collection interval to a lower number. Jack On Thursday, February 23, 2017 at 6:23:36 AM UTC-8, [email protected] wrote: > > Hello > > I'm using telgraf to grab windows metrics to send to Influx and notice a > strange issues with some of the counters. I've setup a new inputs stanza > for collecting w3svc_w3wp requests/sec. > > [[inputs.win_perf_counters.object]] > # Example query where the Instance portion must be removed to get data > back, such as from the Memory object. > ObjectName = "W3SVC_W3WP" > Counters = ["Requests / sec"] > Instances = ["*"] # Use 6 x - to remove the Instance bit from the > query. > Measurement = "win_w3svc" > IncludeTotal=false #Set to true to include _Total instance when > querying for all (*). > > everything seemed to be working properly, metrics are being sent to Influx > but there are a number of gaps. Collect interval is set to 5s and > flush_interval is set to 10s. > > In perfmon I see a steady graph of reques/st but in influx there are > several gaps of 0s. Querying Influx shows > > time Requests_/_sec host instance objectname > > 2017-02-23T14:00:32Z 0 "host" "appPool" > "W3SVC_W3WP" > > 2017-02-23T14:00:37Z 0 "host" "appPool" > "W3SVC_W3WP" > > 2017-02-23T14:00:42Z 0 "host" "appPool" > "W3SVC_W3WP" > > 2017-02-23T14:00:47Z 0 "host" "appPool" > "W3SVC_W3WP" > > 2017-02-23T14:00:52Z 99.3712158203125 "hosts" "appPool" > "W3SVC_W3WP" > > I would expect to see a constant stream of data > > Am I missing something? > Does the collect interval impact how metrics are collected? Should this be > a lower number if I want to get more detail? > > Garry > > -- Remember to include the version number! --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "InfluxData" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/influxdb. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/influxdb/432b64db-79c5-4dd1-942f-32c9f3e1b974%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
