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Is graphite suitable for tracking per day stats?

Asked by Chris Willmore

I will be processing log files and would like to track stats on a per day basis.
Example:
  I am processing a log for day 20110630.
  For every entry of type x, I would like to increment stat X with timestamp 20110630.

Is graphite suited to tracking stats on a day granularity basis?

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cbrinley (cbrinley) said : 		#1

yes graphite will allow you to store metrics at custom metric intervals, daily included.

Here is an example conf related to retention scheme

[everything_1min_1day]
priority = 100
pattern = .*
retentions = 60:1440

[pattern] is a regular expression that will match metric IDs and apply this rule to them in this case all metrics
[retentions] is in the form (seconds per data point):(number of data points to store)
so in this example we expect to store one value for our metric (example: mycompany.serverA.cpu_util) every 60 seconds. And we will store a total of 1440 data points for this metric. (aka one day of data at minute precision).

In your example the retention might look something like this:
[everything_1day_1year]
priority = 100
pattern = .*
retentions = 86400:365 #one data point per day store at that retention level for one year.

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