Counter restarting with deployments restart

[VictorCallejas]

Hi,

I have set my grafana dashboard to see some custom metrics of my deployments.

The problem is when the deployment restarts, instead of adding up, the value gets restarted.

The query:
watchdog_observer_files_processed_total{app=~"$watchdog"}

Underlying this metric is a Counter.

Do you know what I can do so I got it cumulative across deployment restarts.

Thanks!

[csmarchbanks]

Hello, this is how counters work in Prometheus, and functions such as rate and increase in Prometheus are designed to handle counter resets. For example, you could use increase(watchdog_observer_files_processed_total{app=~"$watchdog"}[1h]) to see how many files were processed in the last hour.