I have a counter metric which I want to display as requests/time period. How can I display it in Grafana? All I was able to do was to show it as increasing value:
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boneash
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can you please be a bit more specific? maybe this will lead you into the right way, if it is what I think you mean: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58725189/http-request-duration-seconds-sum-http-request-duration-seconds-count-shows-2/58726800?noredirect=1#comment103746805_58726800 – nelion Nov 13 '19 at 11:29
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You need to derivate
(calculate rate of the change) your metric on the time series database (TSDB) level. Please check documentation of your used TSDB.
For example: InfluxDB DERIVATE documentation

Jan Garaj
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