Re: Metrics Web Console plugin always outputs Histograms as durations

2017-08-08 Thread Justin Edelson
On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 4:42 AM Chetan Mehrotra wrote: > > duration (rather than the higher-level Timer type). It seems like there > > shouldn't be any manipulation of the values for Histograms and we > shouldn't > > output a measurement unit. It would be nice if a metrics provider could > > assoc

Re: Metrics Web Console plugin always outputs Histograms as durations

2017-08-08 Thread Chetan Mehrotra
> duration (rather than the higher-level Timer type). It seems like there > shouldn't be any manipulation of the values for Histograms and we shouldn't > output a measurement unit. It would be nice if a metrics provider could > associate a unit with a Histogram, but that does not seem possible with

Metrics Web Console plugin always outputs Histograms as durations

2017-08-03 Thread Justin Edelson
In the Metrics WebConsole plugin, Histograms are always assumed to be durations. I'm unclear why this would be desirable. I'm no expert in the Metrics library, but as far as I can tell, Histograms don't have a defined unit of measurement and it would actually be strange to use them to store a durat