The graph showed a reduction at various points. Is there a bug in the recording rule calculation that can cause reduction which needs fixing?
On 27 February 2020 06:24:11 GMT, Venkata Bhagavatula <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi , >Thanks for the response. When we a recording rule, what will be the >metric >type of this derived counter?. In the increase function documentation >it >was mentioned that >increase(v range-vector) calculates the increase in the time series in >the >range vector. Breaks in monotonicity (such as counter resets due to >target >restarts) are automatically adjusted for. > >Also why it worked on the original metric as on both dervied and >original >metric has reduction? > >Thanks n Regards, >Chalapathi > > >On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 10:49 PM Stuart Clark ><[email protected]> >wrote: > >> Counters must only increase. Any reduction is seen as a counter >reset. >> >> If this isn't a counter use the derivative function rather than rate >> >> On 26 February 2020 14:05:31 GMT, Venkata Bhagavatula < >> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> In our application, there is one metric that we are deriving from >another >>> metric using recording rules. >>> When we plot the graphs of recording metric and the original metric >in >>> grafana, we see the graph to follow the same trend. But when we >applied >>> increase , then we have seen recording metric is having huge spikes, >>> whereas original metric is not having these spikes. >>> >>> following is the plotted graph: >>> [image: image.png] >>> The bottom panels show the increase of both these metrics over >time. As >>> you can see, there are points where the metric values goes down. >Prometheus >>> handles these as resets for metric type “Counter”, and the increase >>> function handles it gracefully. >>> >>> Can you let us know how these recording metrics are treated in >>> prometheus? and any pointers on how to debug this issue. >>> >>> Thanks n Regards, >>> Chalapathi. >>> >>> >> -- >> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. >> > >-- >You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >Groups "Prometheus Users" group. >To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >an email to [email protected]. >To view this discussion on the web visit >https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/CABXnQPtEbb3dCR6oX%2Bn4%3DdEpSah2oF0gQiw%2BMUvX0OJO7DGPGw%40mail.gmail.com. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prometheus Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/4219E37D-76A9-4AE0-9023-8A1289984709%40Jahingo.com.
