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 <venkat.cha...@gmail.com> 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. > >-- >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 prometheus-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >To view this discussion on the web visit >https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/CABXnQPsEbyNjxzVH267NURtZNGwy7LZGcBueWzhYdgtaS_F6pQ%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 prometheus-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/9A9C2A34-80E4-40E1-9ACD-5C722A0B05D8%40Jahingo.com.
