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[Question #216405]: Can I get the aggregator to drop individual metrics and only send aggegates?

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From: Jasper Capel <question216405@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 14:11:33 -0000
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New question #216405 on Graphite:
https://answers.launchpad.net/graphite/+question/216405

For a service we're instrumenting, all of our metrics are suffixed with the originating server. We're now passing these through an aggregator to get overall values, and are no longer interested in the individual metrics. In the future this will become even more relevant for us, as the sending servers may be short lived cloud instances, and we wouldn't want to end up with tons of different whisper files.

Is there a way to tell the aggregator to *not* pass along the incoming metrics to the carbon-cache, but drop them and instead send just the aggregates?
If not, I'll see if I can get some development resources internally to build such a feature. In that case, any pointers you can give me would be most welcome.

Many thanks,
Jasper


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