From 1243df50e867e85114d586dc1dd089fe6991658c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jordan Sissel <jls@semicomplete.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 18:00:31 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] - fix bytes example

---
 docs/tutorials/metrics-from-logs.md | 13 +++++++++----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/tutorials/metrics-from-logs.md b/docs/tutorials/metrics-from-logs.md
index 90bd76368..22bc7d4e4 100644
--- a/docs/tutorials/metrics-from-logs.md
+++ b/docs/tutorials/metrics-from-logs.md
@@ -41,7 +41,10 @@ Logstash can do the above simpler and without much coding skill:
     }
 
     output {
-      statsd { increment => "apache.response.%{response}" }
+      statsd { 
+        # Count one hit every event by response
+        increment => "apache.response.%{response}" 
+      }
     }
 
 The above uses grok to parse fields out of apache logs and using the statsd
@@ -50,9 +53,11 @@ are parsing apache logs fully, we can trivially add additional metrics:
 
     output {
       statsd {
-        increment => [
-          "apache.response.%{response}",
-          "apache.bytes.%{bytes}",
+        # Count one hit every event by response
+        increment => "apache.response.%{response}"
+
+        # Use the 'bytes' field from the apache log as the count value.
+        count => [ "apache.bytes", "%{bytes}" ]
         ]
       }
     }