Sending rates

[VitBartunek]

Hi guys,

how did you solve sending rates to graphite instead of ever incrementing counters. I mean for example value for "Innodb_rows_read". Statsd by itself doesn't have implemented sending rates and using derive function in graphite is not a good solution (cause problems with missing data points).

Thank you,

Vitek

[art-spilgames]

We normally send them as gauges. Since the gauge sticks to its current value (until it is told otherwise) you can use the derive function.
We could create an option to only send the rate instead. I'll ask the others about it.