Final Aggregator Plugin
The final aggregator emits the last metric of a contiguous series. A
contiguous series is defined as a series which receives updates within the
time period in series_timeout
. The contiguous series may be longer than the
time interval defined by period
.
This is useful for getting the final value for data sources that produce
discrete time series such as procstat, cgroup, kubernetes etc.
When a series has not been updated within the time defined in
series_timeout
, the last metric is emitted with the _final
appended.
Global configuration options
In addition to the plugin-specific configuration settings, plugins support
additional global and plugin configuration settings. These settings are used to
modify metrics, tags, and field or create aliases and configure ordering, etc.
See the CONFIGURATION.md for more details.
Configuration
# Report the final metric of a series
[[aggregators.final]]
## The period on which to flush & clear the aggregator.
# period = "30s"
## If true, the original metric will be dropped by the
## aggregator and will not get sent to the output plugins.
# drop_original = false
## If false, _final is added to every field name
# keep_original_field_names = false
## The time that a series is not updated until considering it final. Ignored
## when output_strategy is "periodic".
# series_timeout = "5m"
## Output strategy, supported values:
## timeout -- output a metric if no new input arrived for `series_timeout`
## periodic -- output the last received metric every `period`
# output_strategy = "timeout"
Output strategy
By default (output_strategy = "timeout"
) the plugin will only emit a metric
for the period if the last received one is older than the series_timeout. This
will not guarantee a regular output of a final
metric e.g. if the
series-timeout is a multiple of the gathering interval for an input. In this
case metric sporadically arrive in the timeout phase of the period and emitting
the final
metric is suppressed.
Contrary to this, output_strategy = "periodic"
will always output a final
metric at the end of the period irrespectively of when the last metric arrived,
the series_timeout
is ignored.
Metrics
Measurement and tags are unchanged, fields are emitted with the suffix
_final
.
Example Output
counter,host=bar i_final=3,j_final=6 1554281635115090133
counter,host=foo i_final=3,j_final=6 1554281635112992012
Original input:
counter,host=bar i=1,j=4 1554281633101153300
counter,host=foo i=1,j=4 1554281633099323601
counter,host=bar i=2,j=5 1554281634107980073
counter,host=foo i=2,j=5 1554281634105931116
counter,host=bar i=3,j=6 1554281635115090133
counter,host=foo i=3,j=6 1554281635112992012