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Grafana - Why is my singlestat panel showing a decimal / float instead of an integer?
A system I'm working on uses JSON logs and then CloudWatch log filters to pull interesting information from the logs and turn them into metrics so I can graph them to see what's going on.
It looks a bit like this:
{"itemsOrdered":1,"msg":"order placed","orderID":154,"ordersCreated":1,"time":"2018-03-23T15:50:03Z"}
I can see that the metrics are coming out OK, because the values are visible in the AWS console.
However, when I added the metric as a SUM to Grafana, I saw something unexpected:
That's not right, I've asked for a sum of an integer and got a decimal point value...
Fortunately, the great team here at Infinity Works had seen this one before and pointed me at the Options tab has a setting for the `Stat` value, which has a default of `Average`. Change that to `Total` and normality is restored. Phew.
