Is there any way to reset the Metrics Counter/Timer once its reported to Graphite/console

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Is there any way to reset the Metrics Counter/Timer once its reported to Graphite/console

priyavivek1 opened this issue 8 years ago · comments

Jakub Holý · Answer 1 · Wed Dec 21 2016 15:35:16 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I assume you want to reset them because it is Graphite that does aggregation over time so you are only interested in measuring the number of new occurrences / ... since the latest report, right?

I have the same need. I fixed it by resetting counters manually (I have my own, modified InfluxReporter with a metricReportedHook that I can use to reset a metric). I believe it is not necessary to update meters as they do and should report the rate in the past 1/5/15 min and are updating themselves (decaying the value) provided you remember to call .tick every 5s (see #37). Though I need to think more about this :).

It would be nice if metrics had support for this built in. I am sure the author would welcome a PR :).

Andrew Tolbert · Answer 2 · Wed Dec 28 2016 05:27:58 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

👍 sounds like a good idea, maybe a top level option in ScheduledReporter to control this would be nice.