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Early access 1.8.0 Calculate the rate of change in a gauge over a time period. Data points at the exact boundaries of the time period aren’t needed. The function interpolates the gauge values at the boundaries from adjacent gauge aggregates if needed.

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Arguments

NameTypeDefaultRequiredDescription
summaryGaugeSummary-✔A gauge aggregate created using gauge_agg
startTIMESTAMPTZ-✔The start of the time period to compute the rate over
intervalINTERVAL-✔The length of the time period to compute the rate over
prevGaugeSummary-The gauge aggregate from the previous interval, used to interpolate the value at start. If NULL, the first timestamp in summary is used as the start of the interval.
nextGaugeSummary-The gauge aggregate from the next interval, used to interpolate the value at start + interval. If NULL, the last timestamp in summary is used as the end of the interval.

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Returns

DOUBLE PRECISION: The per-second rate of change of the gauge between the specified bounds. If exact values are missing in the raw data for the first and last points, these values are interpolated linearly from the neighboring gauge aggregates.

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Samples

Calculate the per-second rate of change for each 15-minute interval, using interpolation to get the values at the interval boundaries if they don’t exist in the data. 
SELECT
    id,
    bucket,
    interpolated_rate(
        summary,
        bucket,
        '15 min',
        LAG(summary) OVER (PARTITION BY id ORDER by bucket),
        LEAD(summary) OVER (PARTITION BY id ORDER by bucket)
    )
FROM (
    SELECT
        id,
        time_bucket('15 min'::interval, ts) AS bucket,
        gauge_agg(ts, val) AS summary
    FROM foo
    GROUP BY id, time_bucket('15 min'::interval, ts)
) t