auto-flush needs to happen at a higher time interval

[grosser]

we switched v4 -> v5 and got lots of no-data alerts
the sender thread should make sure to send a batch every 1min for example to avoid this pitfall

tried to fix this by adding

@statsd.flush sync: true

as the changelog suggests but it's not working
with v4 we had a flat line and now we have this 😞

somehow it works with single_thread: true idk why ... we have multiple long-running threads that each have their own reporter

[januszm]

it sounds like it's too early to switch to v5? @grosser did you rollback to v4 after discovering this?

[grosser]

no, I run v5 with single_thread + times flush + manual flushing after large batches

[gdubicki]

Sorry for digging up such an old issue, but I am just considering switching my app to single_thread: false and am looking at potential issues.

Did you try to just use buffer_flush_interval, @grosser?

[grosser]

don't remember, sounds like a useful setting though