Merge pull request #12876 from grafana/davkal/explore-rate-hinting

Explore: still show rate hint if query is complex

public/app/plugins/datasource/prometheus/datasource.ts

@@ -110,10 +110,9 @@ export function determineQueryHints(series: any[], datasource?: any): any[] {
 
 
     // Check for monotony
     // Check for monotony
     const datapoints: [number, number][] = s.datapoints;
     const datapoints: [number, number][] = s.datapoints;
-    const simpleMetric = query.trim().match(/^\w+$/);
-    if (simpleMetric && datapoints.length > 1) {
+    if (datapoints.length > 1) {
       let increasing = false;
       let increasing = false;
-      const monotonic = datapoints.every((dp, index) => {
+      const monotonic = datapoints.filter(dp => dp[0] !== null).every((dp, index) => {
         if (index === 0) {
         if (index === 0) {
           return true;
           return true;
         }
         }
@@ -122,18 +121,25 @@ export function determineQueryHints(series: any[], datasource?: any): any[] {
         return dp[0] >= datapoints[index - 1][0];
         return dp[0] >= datapoints[index - 1][0];
       });
       });
       if (increasing && monotonic) {
       if (increasing && monotonic) {
-        const label = 'Time series is monotonously increasing.';
-        return {
-          label,
-          index,
-          fix: {
+        const simpleMetric = query.trim().match(/^\w+$/);
+        let label = 'Time series is monotonously increasing.';
+        let fix;
+        if (simpleMetric) {
+          fix = {
             label: 'Fix by adding rate().',
             label: 'Fix by adding rate().',
             action: {
             action: {
               type: 'ADD_RATE',
               type: 'ADD_RATE',
               query,
               query,
               index,
               index,
             },
             },
-          },
+          };
+        } else {
+          label = `${label} Try applying a rate() function.`;
+        }
+        return {
+          label,
+          index,
+          fix,
         };
         };
       }
       }
     }
     }

public/app/plugins/datasource/prometheus/specs/datasource.test.ts

@@ -213,6 +213,30 @@ describe('PrometheusDatasource', () => {
       });
       });
     });
     });
 
 
+    it('returns a rate hint w/o action for a complex monotonously increasing series', () => {
+      const series = [{ datapoints: [[23, 1000], [24, 1001]], query: 'sum(metric)', responseIndex: 0 }];
+      const hints = determineQueryHints(series);
+      expect(hints.length).toBe(1);
+      expect(hints[0].label).toContain('rate()');
+      expect(hints[0].fix).toBeUndefined();
+    });
+
+    it('returns a rate hint for a monotonously increasing series with missing data', () => {
+      const series = [{ datapoints: [[23, 1000], [null, 1001], [24, 1002]], query: 'metric', responseIndex: 0 }];
+      const hints = determineQueryHints(series);
+      expect(hints.length).toBe(1);
+      expect(hints[0]).toMatchObject({
+        label: 'Time series is monotonously increasing.',
+        index: 0,
+        fix: {
+          action: {
+            type: 'ADD_RATE',
+            query: 'metric',
+          },
+        },
+      });
+    });
+
     it('returns a histogram hint for a bucket series', () => {
     it('returns a histogram hint for a bucket series', () => {
       const series = [{ datapoints: [[23, 1000]], query: 'metric_bucket', responseIndex: 0 }];
       const series = [{ datapoints: [[23, 1000]], query: 'metric_bucket', responseIndex: 0 }];
       const hints = determineQueryHints(series);
       const hints = determineQueryHints(series);