Latest known value of a metric

[mtudisco]

Hi, i have a dashboard where i want to show a metric, that metric is collected every hour, the configuration is:

Metric Aggregation: Top Hit
Field: your_field
Aggregate with: concatenate
Size: 1
Sort on: @timestamp
Order: Descending

it works fine when the date filter i select a range greater than 1hr, however when i select for instance las 15min i dont get any data. Is there some way to make the metric to ignore the date filter and show the last known value and show date of that value?

thanks

[rugenl (Len Rugen)]

If your metric is only collected hourly, a shorter value for the date range would often not contain a collected item. You will get the last known value for any range > 1 hour (unless the collector isn't working)

Would it be possible to collect the metric more frequently?

[mtudisco]

Thanks Len for the reply, i can get the metric more frequently but as it changes only a couple of times a day i would overload the system collecting the metric more often.

regards