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Andrzej Bialecki commented on SOLR-14683:
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We should also consider the potential back-compat aspect should we decide to
change some of the returned values.
> Review the metrics API to ensure consistent placeholders for missing values
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> Key: SOLR-14683
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-14683
> Project: Solr
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Security Level: Public(Default Security Level. Issues are Public)
> Components: metrics
> Reporter: Andrzej Bialecki
> Assignee: Andrzej Bialecki
> Priority: Major
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> Spin-off from SOLR-14657. Some gauges can legitimately be missing or in an
> unknown state at some points in time, eg. during SolrCore startup or shutdown.
> Currently the API returns placeholders with either impossible values for
> numeric gauges (such as index size -1) or empty maps / strings for other
> non-numeric gauges.
> [~hossman] noticed that the values for these placeholders may be misleading,
> depending on how the user treats them - if the client has no special logic to
> treat them as "missing values" it may erroneously treat them as valid data.
> E.g. numeric values of -1 or 0 may severely skew averages and produce
> misleading peaks / valleys in metrics histories.
> On the other hand returning a literal {{null}} value instead of the expected
> number may also cause unexpected client issues - although in this case it's
> clearer that there's actually no data available, so long-term this may be a
> better strategy than returning impossible values, even if it means that the
> client should learn to handle {{null}} values appropriately.
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