I'm trying to collect statsd metrics in an influxdb/telegraf/grafana server. What I'm seeing is that there is a continuous stream of entries in influxdb every 10 seconds from telegraf. How can I configure telegraf to only send an update to influxdb whenever it receives a statsd metric over UDP. I don't want a continuously updating value because I want to see the discrete event counts over time periods in grafana.
For example, if I send exactly one counter metric (value=1) at time t0 and no more events for 10 minutes (say), I expect to see exactly one data point for the 10 minute time period I'm aggregating over in Grafana. However, what I see is that every 10s there is an entry in the influxdb telegraph table for the measurement with the value of 1. Grafana would then show me a continuous value of 1 over each 10 minute period. What I really want is that in the 10 minute period where t0 existed, that the value 1 would be shown, whereas in all subsequent time periods (until the next metric, of course), the value would be 0.
How can I achieve that? I see nothing in the telegraf documentation for the statsd plugin that says it will continuously update influxdb with the aggregated value (since the beginning of time) that telegraf has cached.
