You also may want to have something like this in storage-aggregation: [stats_counts] pattern = ^stats_counts\..* xFilesFactor = 0.25 aggregationMethod

You also may want to have something like this in storage-aggregation: [stats_counts] pattern = ^stats_counts\..* xFilesFactor = 0.25 aggregationMethod = sum Otherwise stats_counts get averaged at compaction/rotation, instead of summed. Summing seemed more reasonable, for our use cases at least.