Interpreting Meter values

[Priyanka Mitra]

Hi Metrics-User Group,

This question may have been asked in the past, but I am still looking for the right answer. I have a registered Meter that I am periodically marking as the items are processed within a service. The "count" value seems correct. However I am not able to interpret the rate values. The following values are extracted using simple API calls provided by the "Meter" library.  The service ran or about 5 minutes and then shutdown. During its run these metrics were captured. In that context how are results of 5minrate and 15minrate should be interpreted as?

Meter itemsProcessed // register

meter.mark()...

meter.getCount();

meter.getMeanRate();

meter.getOneMinuteRate();

meter.getFiveMinuteRate();

meter.getFifteenMinuteRate()..

'ItemProcessed', 'count', 5076

'ItemProcessed', 'mean', 4.48503

'ItemProcessed', '1minrate', 0.00000730348

'ItemProcessed', '5minrate', 23.8752

'ItemProcessed', '15minrate', 290.86

Much thanks,

-Priyanka