Counters as Gauge

[ArulselvanMadhavan]

Thanks for providing this library. I noticed that counters as reported as gauges, behind the scenes. We are looking into metrics aggregators and gauges don't work well with aggregators but counters can. So, I was wondering why counters were implemented as gauges

metrics-datadog/metrics-datadog/src/main/java/org/coursera/metrics/datadog/DatadogReporter.java

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request.addGauge(new DatadogGauge(metricNameFormatter.format(name), counter.getCount(),

[mosheeshel]

I'll add to this that you have a specific function addCounter which allows sending the "delta" instead of the aggregate counter val (delta is a better reporting setting because a regular counter is not ideal as it resets every restart of the registry).
Is there a way to make the reporter report counters as counters?

[oriy]

I'll add to this that you have a specific function addCounter which allows sending the "delta" instead of the aggregate counter val (delta is a better reporting setting because a regular counter is not ideal as it resets every restart of the registry). Is there a way to make the reporter report counters as counters?

you can use a counter as class member and report it as gauge
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