Add MaximumOverIntervalGauge #469
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Depends on #405.
This is another "fancy" gauge type from other internal codebase that I believe to be beneficial to others.
We have a few use cases where we want to monitor a value that moves around a lot. One example is measuring the number of concurrent requests for a gRPC server.
With a normal gauge, we're only able to inspect the value as of the time of the scraping (typically once every 10 seconds). This actually got us in production -- We had queue build ups due to downstream TCP re-connects that were manifesting themselves as increased latency for our customers but our metrics looked fine.
Enter the
MaximumOverIntervalGauge
: Instead of reporting the current value, we report the maximum of the value over the last (user configured) interval. This allows us to observe shifts that resolve themselves in less than the configured scrape interval.