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Add clarification to metric_types docs for Gauges
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kzhang22 authored Jan 17, 2017
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Expand Up @@ -85,6 +85,8 @@ StatsD now also supports gauges, arbitrary values, which can be recorded.

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At each flush, the current value of the gauge is sent. If a gauge is set multiple times within a `flushInterval`, only the most recent value will be sent.

If the gauge is not updated at the next flush, it will send the previous value. You can opt to send
no metric at all for this gauge, by setting `config.deleteGauges`

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