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i'm feeling inspired seeing all these tweets and comments flooding out of #monitorama.
so i'm going to tweet some factoids and common misunderstandings throughout the day as they come to me (or as i notice people committing said sins) #o11yfacts incoming!
so i'm going to tweet some factoids and common misunderstandings throughout the day as they come to me (or as i notice people committing said sins) #o11yfacts incoming!
#o11yfacts 1: there are two different meanings of the word 'metrics'.
There are small-m "metrics", a generic collective noun for statistical data. And there are statsd "Metrics", which are a specific data type consisting of a single number with n tags appended to it.
There are small-m "metrics", a generic collective noun for statistical data. And there are statsd "Metrics", which are a specific data type consisting of a single number with n tags appended to it.
Tags are a way of adding dimensions to the number so they can be sorted, grouped and described more usefully.
Statsd Metrics can be one of a small number of types, e.g. counter, gauge, histogram, summary, timing, etc, which inform the aggregator how to process or bucket them.
Statsd Metrics can be one of a small number of types, e.g. counter, gauge, histogram, summary, timing, etc, which inform the aggregator how to process or bucket them.
