Basically it's a problem with how runtime consolidation in Metrictank / Graphite deals with a small maxDataPoints. Setting it to 1 as default should, in most cases, be a better option and give more accurate and reproducible query results as a time window shifts to the future.
This PR updates
maxDataPoints
default to 1. A few related issues:https://github.com/grafana/piechart-panel/issues/42 https://github.com/grafana/metrictank/issues/983
Basically it's a problem with how runtime consolidation in Metrictank / Graphite deals with a small
maxDataPoints
. Setting it to 1 as default should, in most cases, be a better option and give more accurate and reproducible query results as a time window shifts to the future.