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Statsd Counter Sampled Example

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Statsd Counter Sampled Example is an example object payload from StatsD, with 3 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

wireparsednotes

Example Payload

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{
  "wire": "gorets:1|c|@0.1",
  "parsed": {
    "bucket": "gorets",
    "value": 1,
    "type": "counter",
    "wireType": "c",
    "sampleRate": 0.1
  },
  "notes": "Sampled counter — caller only emitted 1 out of every 10 observations. The daemon scales the contribution by 1 / 0.1 = 10 on aggregation so the flushed total reflects the true event rate. Standard pattern for high-volume hot paths."
}