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[Daniel Schauenberg <d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

StatsD generates a total count of counter metrics under the stats_count namespace. You could just sum those values to get total sign-ups.

Cheers,
Daniel

On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 04:45:55PM -0000, Joakim B wrote:
>New question #213347 on Graphite:
>https://answers.launchpad.net/graphite/+question/213347
>
>Whilst being kind of a novice with graphite, I have managed to set it up on a dedicated machine along with statsd and got it working as I want, but this confuses me:
>
>I have a number of places in my application where I would like to keep track of the total amount of things whilst still retaining time-based data. For example - total signups since day 0, as well as signups per minute/hour/whatever.
>
>My first idea was to increment a counter named "users.total" on user signup, but when opening graphite and looking at it I see what I believe is increments per time unit, unless I'm completely misunderstanding it.
>To work around this, I tried to apply different modifiers inside graphite - "sum", "hitcount" and "integral, but neither seems to be able to get a nice total sum over time - Integral is close except that it always has the zero on the left side, making it impossible to zoom in on an area and spot specific changes between dates.
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>Sure, I could do the equivalent of COUNT("users") in my database and storing it as a gauge datatype, but It would be much nicer to use the already available counter.
>
>What can I do here?
>
>Please bear in mind that I have little milage with Graphite & statsd yet. Thanks in advance!
>
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