How to monitor my Play application? Can I use Cinnamon?

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• How to aggregate Cinnamon rates over time

  Cinnamon does not support this natively in part because neither of our underlying metric backends support that type of rate metric*. The Rate metric is for rates of occurrences, like how many times has this happened, and the Recorder is for measuring ...

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