Takes a simple metric about a pod, reports it as a rate.
        If several series are found for a given pod, values are summed before submission.

def _process_pod_rate(self, metric_name, metric, scraper_config):
        """
        Takes a simple metric about a pod, reports it as a rate.
        If several series are found for a given pod, values are summed before submission.
        """
        if metric.type not in METRIC_TYPES:
            self.log.error("Metric type %s unsupported for metric %s" % (metric.type, metric.name))
            return

        samples = self._sum_values_by_context(metric, self._get_pod_uid_if_pod_metric)
        for pod_uid, sample in iteritems(samples):
            if '.network.' in metric_name and self._is_pod_host_networked(pod_uid):
                continue
            tags = tagger.tag('kubernetes_pod://%s' % pod_uid, tagger.HIGH)
            tags += scraper_config['custom_tags']
            val = sample[self.SAMPLE_VALUE]
            self.rate(metric_name, val, tags)