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

[Thomas Segismont]

Le 05/06/2015 16:12, Thomas Heute a écrit :
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> 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.
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> 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.


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