{"action":"opened","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/brettlangdon/node-dogapi/issues/35","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/brettlangdon/node-dogapi","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/brettlangdon/node-dogapi/issues/35/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/brettlangdon/node-dogapi/issues/35/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/brettlangdon/node-dogapi/issues/35/events","html_url":"https://github.com/brettlangdon/node-dogapi/issues/35","id":141634519,"number":35,"title":"metric_type isn't doing anything?","user":{"login":"jetmind","id":849266,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/849266?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/jetmind","html_url":"https://github.com/jetmind","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jetmind/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jetmind/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jetmind/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jetmind/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jetmind/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jetmind/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jetmind/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jetmind/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jetmind/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2016-03-17T16:27:07Z","updated_at":"2016-03-17T16:27:07Z","closed_at":null,"body":"`dogapi.metric.send` takes `metric_type` as extra parameter and [documentation specifies](https://brettlangdon.github.io/node-dogapi/#metric) it can be either \"gauge\" or \"counter\", but setting it to \"counter\" works exactly as setting it to \"gauge\" (i.e. it reports constant value to the datadog).\r\n\r\nI don't see any mentions of metric type at all in the [Datadog's HTTP API docs](http://docs.datadoghq.com/api/) and official API libraries (e.g. [datadogpy](https://github.com/DataDog/datadogpy)) rely on the statsd to implement counters.\r\n\r\nMaybe this option is obsolete? Or am I missing something?\r\n\r\nThanks!"}}