title: Statsd: Which metric to use to measure data throughput
body: <p>I'm fairly new to statsd, I want to measure the aggregated data volume/second that my process uses, but cannot find the correct statsd metric for it: </p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>increment would be good, as it gives rate, but cannot increment with a value</li>
  <li>gauge doesn't aggregate, just sets a value</li>
  <li>timers also don't feel right</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>So which one should I choose, and how should I use it?</p>