Ability to set time unit per metric

[xiaochuanyu]

Is there a way to set the time unit specifically for certain metrics?
E.g. I want meter1 to be per minute rate but meter2 per sec

Dropwizard metrics seemed to have dropped this feature at one point and wanted to let metrics reporter libraries to deal with it (like metrics-datadog).

So far my work around has been to make Datadog derive rates from count.

[nickdella]

Hi @xiaochuanyu ! We currently only support setting the time unit for all metrics. Doing this for certain metrics would be possible with some additional configuration and implementation work.

Personally, I don't see a strong need for this feature, as 1) I find myself doing a lot of metric massaging downstream in Datadog anyway (e.g. applying the rate function as you mention) and 2) I like the consistency of having all metrics reported with one duration unit, as opposed to having engineers guess as to which metrics are in seconds vs minutes. That said, PRs are welcome so long as they don't break backward compatibility.