the reporter sends all metrics to statsd as gauge

[gitlakerzhou]

Hi,

Please help to understand an issue I have seen.
My app collects timers, counters, and meters and reports them through different reporters.
if the graphite reporter is used directly, the collected metrics are reported to graphite as the correct metric types.
But if I use the statsd reporter, all the collected metrics are reported to statsd as gauges, e.g. all the message to statsd end with "|g". This is confirmed from the statsd logs.
Could anyone help me to resolve the problem? Thanks.

[mkeesey]

Graphite has no concept of metric types, but instead only knows about scalar values. StatsD does have different metric types to help with it's own aggregation strategies. We send all values as gauges because we don't want StatsD to do any aggregation - the Codahale Metrics library has already aggregated the values. Sending already-summarized values to StatsD as a timer, for example, is guaranteed to give you a nonsense value.

(please see organicveggie#6 and the last comment in organicveggie#4)