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0/0 evaluates to +Inf but should be NaN #597

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aecolley opened this Issue Mar 16, 2015 · 3 comments

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aecolley commented Mar 16, 2015

This is inconsistent with float arithmetic in Go. It's not a theoretical-only concern either: I had an alert spuriously fire because the (summary-based) average was too high. You see, sum and count were both zero, so the mean ratio was +Inf which was larger than the threshold; NaN would not have alerted in that case.

Workaround: AND your alert rules with tests like foo_count != 0.

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juliusv commented Mar 16, 2015

Ah, thanks for pointing this out! Will fix this. Sorry in case this paged you at night :)

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juliusv commented Mar 16, 2015

Fix out in #598

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