How about instead of reporting the 'rate' of sales per minute to Graphite, just report the count of sales since the last report. Then set the aggregation method to 'count', and problem solved?
You probably mean 'sum', 'count' doesn't look like a valid aggregation method according to Graphite docs. Storing the sum would indeed provide a way to update the datapoints later by simply adding to the total. (I don't believe RRDTool allows that thought).
But it doesn't solve the Graphite problem - if two reports come in during the same step, you still lose the first one.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 14.7 ms ] threadBut it doesn't solve the Graphite problem - if two reports come in during the same step, you still lose the first one.