How do you handle steadily increasing counters?

[berenddeboer]

collectd has lots of plugins that collect steadily increasing counters, insert commands in mysql for example, or varnish cache hits. They just keep increasing in the CloudWatch Management Console, what I need is a changing value over time. How do you do that?

I.e. what I want to see in the console are derivatives (i.e. DERIVE as per types.db).

[sebasrp]

Hi, This is really more to do with collectd itself than with the plugin, but this is my current understanding of what you can do to go around this problem:

• Use the Aggregation Plugin
• Use the Chain plugin

Ultimately I would reach out to the wider collectd community see contact information