rate(value: numeric or duration) -> value

Calculate the average per-second rate of the argument across the group.

rate by default assumes the value to be monotonically increasing, and treats decreasing values as counter resets.

When the argument is a metric defined using set_metric, rate behaves differently according to the specified metric type:

• for gauge and cumulativeCounter metrics, rate will retain the default behavior of assuming monotonic increases.
• for delta metrics, rate will sum up the values and then divide by the frame size to calculate average per-second rate.

Domain

This is an aggregate function (aggregates rows over a group in aggregate verbs).

This is a window function (calculates over a group of multiple input rows using windowing).

Categories

• Aggregate
• Numeric
• Time
• Window

Examples

align 5m, requests: rate(m("requests_total"))

Computes the per-second rate of "requests_total" metric for each 5m time bins. The rate is always positive, and resets if the counter goes down.