Cumulative Counter Support in SignalFx Sink

[AndrooHan]

Hey Folks,

Wanted to discuss a proposal. We’re currently using Dogstatsd clients to emit certain stats as gauge types for SignalFx cumulative counter type metrics. The way we do this in our fork is we designate a specific tag (i.e. cumulative_counter) to determine whether to emit a gauge as a cumulative counter in our SignalFx sink.

This is useful for third party libraries that expose cumulative counter metrics but don’t have statsd support. When being aggregated or sampled these metrics would be treated the same as gauges.

We’d like to submit our tagging and conversion functionality upstream as we could see it being a common pain point for SignalFx users. Thoughts?

cc: @prudhvi

[prudhvi]

cc @aditya-stripe @antifuchs Just a reminder to see if you are willing to accept this feature upstream

[ChimeraCoder]

Yeah, this sounds like it could be useful!