# Graphite data

**URL:** <https://community.gatling.io/t/graphite-data/229>\
**Category:** Gatling (Open-Source)\
**Created:** [January 14, 2013, 8:58pm UTC](https://community.gatling.io/t/graphite-data/229 "2013-01-14T20:58:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Sid\_Spencer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19adc/32.png) [@Sid\_Spencer](https://community.gatling.io/u/Sid_Spencer)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 8:58pm UTC](https://community.gatling.io/t/graphite-data/229/1 "2013-01-14T20:58:47Z")

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Hi-

I’m trying to follow the instructions listed here [https://github.com/excilys/gatling/wiki/Graphite](https://github.com/excilys/gatling/wiki/Graphite) to set up Gatling to send data to Graphite. I can do it, but I don’t actually understand what the quantities are that Graphite is graphing. I know it’s a max, min, and an average, but of what? The Req/s? The Latency?

Any help would be most appreciated.

Thank you,  
-Sid

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**Author:** ![Pierre\_DAL-PRA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@Pierre\_DAL-PRA](https://community.gatling.io/u/Pierre_DAL-PRA)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 9:28pm UTC](https://community.gatling.io/t/graphite-data/229/2 "2013-01-14T21:28:11Z")

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Hi,

Basically, there is two types of metrics : users and requests metrics.

Users metrics give you, for each scenario of your simulation :

- _waiting_ : # of users waiting to start the scenario
- _active_ : # of users currently running
- _done_ : # of users who have completed the scenario

Requests metrics give you, for each request and by status (OK, KO and both) :

- _count_ : Req of requests
- _min_ and _max_ : Min and Max response time for the request
- _percentilesXX_ : First and second percentiles, as defined in gatling.conf (defaults are 95th and 99th percentiles)

Cheers,

Pierre

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**Author:** ![Excilys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8797f3/32.png) [@Excilys](https://community.gatling.io/u/Excilys)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 9:36pm UTC](https://community.gatling.io/t/graphite-data/229/3 "2013-01-14T21:36:58Z")

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@Pierre Could you add this to the wiki page, please?

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**Author:** ![Pierre\_DAL-PRA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@Pierre\_DAL-PRA](https://community.gatling.io/u/Pierre_DAL-PRA)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 9:49pm UTC](https://community.gatling.io/t/graphite-data/229/4 "2013-01-14T21:49:21Z")

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My bad, posted a little bit too fast : _count_ for request metrics is the number of requests/sec.

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**Author:** ![Sid\_Spencer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19adc/32.png) [@Sid\_Spencer](https://community.gatling.io/u/Sid_Spencer)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 5:56pm UTC](https://community.gatling.io/t/graphite-data/229/5 "2013-01-24T17:56:33Z")

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Thank you so much! 🙂