Introduction:
Counter and Interval Counter are standard Introscope metrics for calculators. This article will describe the difference between the two.
Question:
What is the difference between "Interval Counter" and "Counter" metrics, with regard to calculators ?
Environment:
All Introscope environments.
Answer:
Counter = a value that is usually incremented/decremented by tracers, and retains its value across interval boundaries, e.g.- A database connection count.
Interval counter = a value that starts from 0 each interval, and is only incremented, e.g.- responses per interval
Additional Information:
For a calculator, since the value is recalculated for each interval, the type of the metric makes no difference.