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Question #148743 on Graphite changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/graphite/+question/148743

Dave Rawks posted a new comment:
Just wanted to chime in to say that I think this is a useful addition.
Not everyone has the luxury of getting their metrics as "gauges", first
order derivatives. Especially if you are already getting data via
something counter based, opennms, snmp, etc.. And even those who would
like to convert to using "gauge" instead of counter may have a large
backlog of existing metrics and not have the desire to go back and
calculate a derivative and reinject into carbon. Plus the conversion
from gauge to counter is inherently lossy since you can always calculate
the rate from the counter, but not vice versa.

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