Question: is there any way to set tags? about elixometer HOT 6 OPEN

Hi @shengwu, unfortunately tags are not supported when updating a metric. However you would be able to do to this by using exometer_core directly and writing a :exometer_probe with a version of :exometer_slide that supports tagging values. While this may seem very complex, I do not think it would be as difficult as it sounds because exometer_core contains a few examples of how do this, and the hardest parts can be copied from the existing :exometer_spiral and :exometer_slide.

Note that this would lose you the automatic creation/subscribing of metrics and thepobox protection that elixometer provides to prevent overloading a :exometer_probe process. However again elixometer also exposes enough to replicate this feature if you require it.

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@fishcakez Thank you for responding so quickly! Glad to hear that it's possible with exometer.

By chance, would elixometer be open to a contribution adding this feature?

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I have a fork zorbash/exometer@ac6197b which supports DataDog tags from configuration. I think that maybe exometer_report_statsd.erl can be changed to support dynamic (per metric update) tags.

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How would you express the goal to capture response time metrics along with status code with elixometer? Have a unique metric for each status code?

The information I would get is what response time is and how many and what errors are there?
Can I answer the second question with elixometer?

Thanks

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Actually, the exometer_influxdb reporter already supports a feature to convert a chunk of metric as a tag: travelping/exometer_influxdb#3

Someone might find this helpful, so I'm still posting the comment

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