Why do I have metrics with many zeros commas and underscores in name

Visualization, Metrics & Reporting
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My graphite whisper database is having metrics with lots of zeroes in name. Where do they come from and what’s the purpose?

Background: I am storing monitoring metrics from icinga2 into a graphite database. Later I am visualizing the metrics with grafana.

When I check the metrics in graphite I can find all metrics coming from my icinga services performance data. E.g. I have a metric named videostreams. Now I discovered that I have some additional metrics with the name like this:

0,_0,_0,_0,_0,_0,_0,_0,_0,_0,_0,_0,_0,_0,_0,_0,_0,_0,_0,_0,_0]_videostreams

Where are these metrics coming from and what is the purpose?

I am doing all this on linux debian buster.

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Found the answer myself:

A check command was sending odd value output with spaces.
This was confusing GraphiteWriter or graphite.

So nevermind, I fixed the issue by improving the check command ( it was check_jitsi and the metrics “conferences_by_audio_senders” and “conferences_by_video_senders”