Hi Stanislav, Thanks for this KIP. I coincidentally just noticed these strange initial values while doing some performance measurements.
Since the metric type is a double, could we consider NaN instead? It seems like +Inf is somewhat arbitrary for Max, so it might as well be an arbitrary value that actually means "this is not a number". Consider that +- Infinity is technically "in range" for max and min, while NaN is not. NaN is "in range" for an average or a rate, but in those cases it would mean that the result is over 0 samples or 0 time, respectively. I think this only happens when nothing has been recorded, so it would still be sound for the situation you're attempting to address. Just to throw it out there, `null` is technically also (maybe moreso) a sound choice, but I'd be concerned about causing a bunch of null dereference errors. Thanks again, -John On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 2:27 PM Stanislav Kozlovski <stanis...@confluent.io> wrote: > Hi Suman, > > Thanks for taking a look at this. Yeah, it's very minor but it changes the > public API (even if this is a very slight change) and as far as I know this > warrants some discussion > > On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 9:28 PM Suman B N <sumannew...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Looks good to me. Maintains uniformity. +1 from me. > > But its more of a bug rather than improvement proposal. Let's see what > > contributors got to say. > > > > On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 7:23 PM Stanislav Kozlovski < > > stanis...@confluent.io> > > wrote: > > > > > Hey everybody, > > > > > > I've opened up a very short KIP to make the Max and Min metrics' > default > > > values consistent with each other. > > > > > > KIP: > > > > > > > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-386%3A+Make+Min+metrics%27+default+value+consistent+with+Max+metrics > > > JIRA: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-7528 > > > > > > This is hopefully a very straightforward change. Please provide > feedback. > > > Thanks > > > > > > -- > > > Best, > > > Stanislav > > > > > > > > > -- > > *Suman* > > *OlaCabs* > > > > > -- > Best, > Stanislav >