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Sliding vs. Tumbling window

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Question

What are the 2 types of time windows implemented for Events in the Instana backend?

Answer

  1. Sliding: Checks every second for the last 30 seconds
  2. Tumbling: Checks once every 30 seconds in a tumbling fashion

When building custom events it will always use sliding windows.

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Modified date:
17 August 2023

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