I don't understand why random at sampling

[Giulio De Donato]

Hello,
Do you know why on the sampling there's the random function?

https://github.com/tarjei/StatsDBundle/blob/master/StatsD.php#L104

if ((mt_rand() / mt_getrandmax()) <= $sampleRate) {

Thanks

[Tarjei Huse]

The initial implenentation was done @ etsy, but I think the idea is that you do not report all datapoints - just a fraction to reduce load.

[Giulio De Donato]

Thanks a lot.

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Tarjei Huse [e-mail]:

The initial implenentation was done @ etsy, but I think the idea is that
you do not report all datapoints - just a fraction to reduce load.

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