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[Nicholas Leskiw <question219940@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question #219940 on Graphite changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/graphite/+question/219940

Nicholas Leskiw posted a new comment:
If it returned no data, you would have just sent a message to the list
asking why Graphite lost your data ;)

I continually see people have problems with Graphite+statsd.  I think
that we should come up with sane defaults for statsd and include them
with the carbon configuration examples so that folks using statsd don't
run into nasty surprises.

Also, I think the web interface should show the retention rate for
metrics somehow, either in the nav tree or having a graph option to
print them with the metrics.

It's such a critical part of graphite and it's quite hidden IMHO.

-Nick

On Jan 25, 2013, at 7:50 AM, Luke Venediger
<question219940@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Question #219940 on Graphite changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/graphite/+question/219940
> 
>    Status: Open => Solved
> 
> Luke Venediger confirmed that the question is solved:
> So it turns out that my retention period was defaulting to 14 days, not
> 6 months as I'd expected. I had configured my retention periods based on
> the statsd configuration guide, but didn't set up a 6 month retention
> period for all metrics starting with stats_counts.  So the error was
> being thrown because there was no date for the range I was specifying.
> 
> As an aside, it would be better for the API to return no data instead of
> an exception.
> 
> Thanks,
> Luke
> 
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