elastic / elastic/logstash

Metric Type for high variance gauge

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Description

The current implementation of the collector does a periodic snapshot every second of the metric store to the metric pipeline. This sampling work well with counter and gauge values since it give a high level view of the system.

But this feature doesn't work if we want to keep track of response time to a remote service like HTTP calls to elasticsearch, in this case we need a structure that keep a moving windows of the values, this could also be used for gauges to have more granularity.

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Research direction

Start by tracing the collector's periodic snapshot from the metric store into the metric pipeline. Define what moving-window behavior is needed for remote-service response times and higher-granularity gauges, then confirm the design supports both use cases and preserves the existing counter and gauge view.

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Assessment

Tech stack
elasticsearch, java
Domain
observability
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
20/100

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