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StatsD Timing Metric (|ms) Not Captured While Counter Metric (|c) Works Properly on Splunk Observability Cloud

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I am using StatsD to send metrics to a receiver, but I am encountering an issue where timing metrics (|ms) are not being captured, even though counter metrics (|c) work fine on Splunk Observability Cloud.
 

Example of Working Metric: The following command works and is processed correctly by the StatsD receiver:

 

echo "test_Latency:42|c|#key:val" | nc -u -w1 localhost 8127

 

Example of Non-Working Metric: However, this command does not result in any output or processing:

 

echo "test_Latency:0.082231|ms" | nc -u -w1 localhost 8127

 

Current StatsD Configuration:

Here is the configuration I am using for the receiver by following the doc: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/main/receiver/statsdreceiver

 

receivers:
  statsd:
    endpoint: "localhost:8127"
    aggregation_interval: 30s
    enable_metric_type: true
    is_monotonic_counter: false
    timer_histogram_mapping:
      - statsd_type: "histogram"
        observer_type: "gauge"
      - statsd_type: "timing"
        observer_type: "histogram"
        histogram:
          max_size: 100
      - statsd_type: "distribution"
        observer_type: "summary"
        summary:
          percentiles: [0, 10, 50, 90, 95, 100]

 

 Why are timing metrics (|ms) not being captured while counters (|c) are working, can you please help to check on it as the statsdreceiver github document says it supports "timer" related metrics https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/blob/main/receiver/statsdreceiver/...

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thank You.

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