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This feature is available as an add-on for the Honeycomb Enterprise plan. Please contact your Honeycomb account team for details.

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Description

The Compute Metric Statistics processor can be used to calculate statistics for metrics over fixed time intervals to reduce metric throughput.

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Supported Types

MetricsLogsTraces
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Configuration Table

ParameterTypeDefaultDescription
intervalint60The interval in seconds on which to aggregate metrics. Calculated metrics will be emitted after the interval passes.
includeregex.*A regex that must match against the metric’s name in order to calculate statistics from it. The default value matches all metrics.
stats[]string["min", "max", "avg"]A list of statistics to calculate on matched metrics. Valid values are: min, max, avg, first, and last.

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Example Configuration

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Calculate Average, Minimum, and Maximum

Calculate the average, minimum, and maximum values of each incoming metric, and emit them with a .avg, .min, and .max suffix, respectively.

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Web Interface

Honeycomb Docs - Metric Statistics - image 1

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Standalone Processor

apiVersion: bindplane.observiq.com/v1
kind: Processor
metadata:
  id: calculate-avg-min-max
  name: calculate-avg-min-max
spec:
  type: metric_stats
  parameters:
    - name: interval
      value: 60
    - name: include
      value: '.*'
    - name: stats
      value: ['min', 'max', 'avg']

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Take the Most Recent Value

Take the last value of a metric over a 60 second interval, and emit the metric with a suffix of .last.

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Web Interface

Honeycomb Docs - Metric Statistics - image 2

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Standalone Processor

apiVersion: bindplane.observiq.com/v1
kind: Processor
metadata:
  id: calculate-last-value
  name: calculate-last-value
spec:
  type: metric_stats
  parameters:
    - name: interval
      value: 60
    - name: include
      value: '.*'
    - name: stats
      value: ['last']