Seven entries per benchmark per metric in influx.

[loonatick-src]

I am trying to understand the output when using the influx format. For a simple benchmark there are seven entries per benchmark and metric combination. E.g. like so (platform columns removed).

metric,units,test,value,test_average,iterations,warmup_iterations,timestamp
Time(userCPU),ns,blackHole,1000,1613.0,100000,100,2024-01-31T14:17:56Z
Time(userCPU),ns,blackHole,1083,1613.0,100000,100,2024-01-31T14:17:56Z
Time(userCPU),ns,blackHole,1166,1613.0,100000,100,2024-01-31T14:17:56Z
Time(userCPU),ns,blackHole,1167,1613.0,100000,100,2024-01-31T14:17:56Z
Time(userCPU),ns,blackHole,1500,1613.0,100000,100,2024-01-31T14:17:56Z
Time(userCPU),ns,blackHole,2042,1613.0,100000,100,2024-01-31T14:17:56Z
Time(userCPU),ns,blackHole,3333,1613.0,100000,100,2024-01-31T14:17:56Z

It is not immediately obvious to me why they are repeated seven times with only the value column changing, but my guess is that this is the seven-figure summary. Is that correct? If yes, perhaps there should be an additional column indicating which percentile it is, or is the user expected to infer that using the relative orders?

[hassila]

@clackary or @ORyanHampton maybe you'd like to comment?

[ORyanHampton]

The seven entries are from the percentile values. For each of the values they are written in order, so you can infer from the order which percentile the value belongs to. However, I agree, we should probably add another tag column indicating which percentile the value belongs to.

[hassila]

@loonatick-src something you would like to do a PR for if you need this?