{"action":"closed","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/dropwizard/metrics/issues/847","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/dropwizard/metrics/issues/847/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/dropwizard/metrics/issues/847/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/dropwizard/metrics/issues/847/events","html_url":"https://github.com/dropwizard/metrics/issues/847","id":99056490,"number":847,"title":"Metrics+Graphite+Grafana does not work with decreasing counters","user":{"login":"yeputons","id":1297325,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1297325?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/yeputons","html_url":"https://github.com/yeputons","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/yeputons/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/yeputons/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/yeputons/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/yeputons/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/yeputons/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/yeputons/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/yeputons/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/yeputons/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/yeputons/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"closed","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":1,"created_at":"2015-08-04T20:36:10Z","updated_at":"2015-08-06T02:14:09Z","closed_at":"2015-08-06T02:14:09Z","body":"It looks like someone of Graphite/Grafana draws a clear line between gauges and counters, like <a href=\"http://copperegg.com/copperegg-data-types-gauges-vs-counters/\">here</a> or <a href=\"http://statsd.readthedocs.org/en/v0.5.0/types.html\">here</a>. The difference is that counters are for counting amount of events per time period and they can only increase. So, despite the Metrics library explicitly allows me to decrease counters, they are reported as 'counters' to Graphite and it looks like Graphite+Grafana just ignore these decreasing changes."}}