Graphite, how to change request rate to 1 min

Question

I have recently installed statsd with Graphite. Statsd is working in logstash:

statsd {
 host => "localhost"
 port => 8125
 debug => false
 increment => "%{dhcp}"

}

Graphite storage-schemas.conf:

[stats]
pattern = ^stats.*
retentions = 5m:500m,600:10080,1800:262974

The problem is that all Graphs are per second or 10 seconds, but I need per minute. How I can change the Graph rate to one minute?

Thank you in advance. Best Regards

Answer 1

In statsd's config, add the following to ensure that statsd and graphite are in sync-

flushInterval: 60000,

Here the count is in milliseconds. This will make statsd send metrics to graphite every minute.

pattern = ^stats\.

retentions = 60s:90d

Your storage schema isn't falling into the regex because you haven't escaped the period.

A good idea would be to verify the schema that is 'finally applicable' on the metric. A neat way would be to tailf /opt/graphite/storage/log/carbon-cache/carbon-cache-a/creates.log Then send a test metric to verify to ascertain what graphite thinks you wants out of it. The output will be something like-

24/10/2013 15:05:08 :: new metric METRIC_NAME matched aggregation schema counters_fall_here

24/10/2013 15:05:08 :: creating database file /opt/graphite/storage/whisper/METRIC_NAME.wsp (archive=[(60, 43200), (600, 52560)] xff=0.0 agg=sum)