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Asked: 2026-05-27T15:07:51+00:00

We have a metric that we increment every time a user performs a certain

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We have a metric that we increment every time a user performs a certain action on our website, but the graphs don’t seem to be accurate.

So going off this hunch, we invested the updates.log of carbon and discovered that the action had happened over 4 thousand times today(using grep and wc), but according the Integral result of the graph it returned only 220ish.

What could be the cause of this? Data is being reported to statsd using the statsd php library, and calling statsd::increment('metric'); and as stated above, the log confirms that 4,000+ updates to this key happened today.

We are using:

graphite 0.9.6 with statsD (etsy)

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  1. Editorial Team

    After posting my comment above I found Graphite 0.9.9 has a (new?) configuration file, storage-aggregation.conf, in which one can control the aggregation method per pattern. The available options are average, sum, min, max, and last.

    http://readthedocs.org/docs/graphite/en/latest/config-carbon.html#storage-aggregation-conf

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