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Graphite requests without timestamp

Asked by Boris

Hello everyone.

I would like to ask you a question.

We have Graphite server 0.9.12, and it works. If we send data like this:

simple_metric.simple9 200 1406648248

The information correctly appears in our graph.

However, if we do not use timestamp, like this:

simple_metric.simple9 200

it doesn't work at all. All of requests without timestamp have no effect.

According to the manual,

http://docs.hostedgraphite.com/#id2

it's possible to omit the timestamp option and Graphite should work.

How to fix it? (and use requests without timestamp)
This is the problem of our server (cfg? version? time?) or smth else? Or timestamp is necessary?

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Best Jason Dixon (jason-dixongroup) said : 		#1

Hi Boris,

The link you pasted is for the HostedGraphite service documentation. They are largely compatible with the Graphite project (they use a Riak backend) but in this case it seems they've diverged. The official Carbon requires a timestamp as detailed in the official documentation.

http://graphite.readthedocs.org/en/0.9.12/feeding-carbon.html#the-plaintext-protocol

Thanks,
Jason

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Boris (bsivko) said : 		#2

Thanks Jason Dixon, that solved my question.