A metric that should be reporting as a whole number

[tchjts1]

We are measuring an MSSQL metric that should be reporting as a whole number, but is reporting as a decimal fraction. The number of deadlocks per second should be 0, 1, 2, 3 etc.

What am I missing here? I don't think I should be using a multiplier to fix this.

Here is the information:

The perf counter being used:

perf_counter["\MSSQL$hostname:Locks(_Total)\Number of Deadlocks/sec",60]

And then what we are currently seeing and the item config:

[LenR]

Does this item update every 30 seconds?

If you had 6 deadlocks in the last update interval, then the value would be 6/30 or .2

[tchjts1]

Good point. No, I have this item updating every 60 seconds.