A set is a metric that keeps track of the number of unique occurances of a metric sent between flush periods. We could either support the "s" metric type like statsd or we could just calculate this as a value for all metrics. Also, I think "sets" is a terrible name... "uniques" might be better.
Option 1 - "set" metric type (notice the "s" type):
A set is a metric that keeps track of the number of unique occurances of a metric sent between flush periods. We could either support the "s" metric type like statsd or we could just calculate this as a value for all metrics. Also, I think "sets" is a terrible name... "uniques" might be better.
Option 1 - "set" metric type (notice the "s" type):
Option 2 - generate a unique metric for all types (notice the "g" type):