I’m +1 on removing the “clear|zero” operations from traffic_ctl in 10.0.0.
— Leif > On Jul 16, 2024, at 4:12 AM, Damian Meden <dme...@apache.org> wrote: > > Hello. > > With the latest inclusion of the new Metric machinery in ATS 10 you are no > longer able to reset|zero a counter at runtime, this used to make sense as > the old metrics were persistent, this is no longer the case for ATS 10. All > counters are reset on every restart, so this would be the way to clear them > all. > > > Q: Do you guys have any good arguments to (re)implement this "feature"? It > does not make sense to implement a feature just to keep backward > compatibility when there is no real need. > > Keep in mind that there are other ways to monitor > <https://docs.trafficserver.apache.org/en/latest/appendices/command-line/traffic_ctl.en.html#cmdoption-traffic_ctl-metric-arg-monitor> > a metric in case you want to know how this metric performs without the need > to reset it. > > To keep this consistent, in case we do not implement it we would need to > remove this(metric clear|zero) API from traffic_ctl for ATS 10. > > Regards, > Damian
