Hey folks,
I am looking into deploying the managed Telegraf Agent to assess if any value in the additional metrics provided by Telegraf. Agent deployment working OK , I have a 'Linux OS' object which includes additional OS level metrics. Some of these metrics are incrementing counters - eg Disk Writes. If I add this metric to a dashboard, it's not particularly useful to see the incrementing line - I would prefer to plot the rate of change, eg the delta between the current and previous datapoint divided by the metric polling interval. I have been looking at this for several hours and have not found a way to plot incrementing counters as rates. Is this possible? I took a look at Super Metrics and do not see any rate or derivative functions , or an obvious way to access previous data points to calculate this with a formula.
Any pointers would be most appreciated, thanks! Also - I did not see any out of the box dashboards for metrics provided by the Telegraf Agent - is this something I should expect to see, or is manual dashboard creation required , and if so, are community dashboards for the Telegraf metrics available anywhere?
Cheers