[Hawkular-dev] [Metrics] What should we do with requests to save data points without a timestamp

[Thomas Heute]

On 06/05/2015 05:46 PM, Thomas Segismont wrote:
> Le 05/06/2015 16:12, Thomas Heute a écrit :
>>
>>
>> On 06/05/2015 04:02 PM, Thomas Segismont wrote:
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> While doing some testing for Grafana/Metrics integration, I found that
>>> if you don't supply a timestamp when you send data points to Metrics,
>>> they all get stored with timesptamp=0. This not right.
>>>
>>> In such situations, Influx saves the point with the server timestamp. We
>>> could also reply with 400 Bad Request. My preference goes to the latter.
>>
>> Agreed that reporting that it's wrong seems better that silently use
>> some other value.
>>
>> But would we still have a simple way to explicitly use server timestamp ?
>> Might be useful when you are unsure that the client machine has the
>> right time and not care about some small time difference.
>>
>
> Adding a flag (-Dhawkular.metrics.useServerTimestamp) to switch between
> failing requests and using a server timestamp would do the trick.
>
> In any case it's important we insist that users should make sure all
> machines times are synchronized.

I was thinking for an individual request, not server wide.

Thomas




>
>
>> Thomas
>>
>>>
>>> Any thoughts?
>>>
>>> I'll file a JIRA when we agree on a solution.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Thomas
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