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Document that metric sinks aggregate metrics within a batch

Open bruceg opened this issue 3 years ago • 3 comments

Most of the metric sinks aggregate metrics within a batch. That is, incremental metrics are added together and absolute metrics are replaced by the later value. As noted by https://github.com/timberio/vector/pull/7846#pullrequestreview-686985284 this is not adequately described in the documentation for those sinks. This applies to the following sinks:

  • aws_cloudwatch_metrics
  • datadog_metrics
  • stackdriver_metrics
  • influxdb_metrics
  • prometheus_exporter
  • prometheus_remote_write
  • sematext_metrics

bruceg avatar Jun 18 '21 23:06 bruceg