[CASSANDRA-8627] Support Total/Recent latency histogram metrics for range slices

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.1.3
• Component/s: Legacy/Observability
• Labels: metrics
• Assignee: Sam Tunnicliffe
• Reporter: Chris Lohfink

Authors

Sam Tunnicliffe

Reviewers

Aleksey Yeschenko

• Created: 15/Jan/15 16:22
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:31
• Resolved: 20/Jan/15 15:40

Description

The Metrics histogram is pretty bad at non-normal data like latencies and (empirically tested and theoretically) is untrustworthy at 99th percentile. For applications that care about the percentiles having the more statistically accurate version is beneficial. Adding the deprecated methods like other latency histograms for CASSANDRA-7338 temporarily would help.

This is just for 2.1 branch. CASSANDRA-5657 solves everything in 3.0.