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Re: [Question #218962]: Over writing old with changed data

 

Graphite overwrites data sent to the same timeslot.  You will have only the second value sent stored in Graphite.

-Nick

On Jan 11, 2013, at 10:35 AM, Carolyn Bray <question218962@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> New question #218962 on Graphite:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/graphite/+question/218962
> 
> If I put in data time and data value and then over-write the same metric time with a data value - have I double stored?  Or over-written?  Just want to understand the behind the scenes logic.
> I believe the double-stored would mean that the retention time would be shorted since I've filled one of the points twice.
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