title: Performance chart of a counter with Graphite
body: <p>I want a chart like the following which shows that the number of registered users was 0 at 9:41 am and increased by 41 on 9:46 am:</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/7989/localhostscreencapture2.png" rel="nofollow">http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/7989/localhostscreencapture2.png</a></p>
  
  <p>But I got this graphite chart (I incremented the statsd counter by 41 at 9:46 am):</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/8702/graphitedevreqordercom.png" rel="nofollow">http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/8702/graphitedevreqordercom.png</a></p>
  
  <p>My render request was (someone recommended the hitcount method to me):</p>
  
  <p>render/?width=586&amp;height=308&amp;_salt=1336642203.533&amp;target=hitcount(stats_counts.reqorder.staging.community.1.membership.total, "1min")&amp;from=09%3A40_20120509&amp;until=09%3A50_20120509</p>
  
  <p>How can I change the render url request to get a chart like this:</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/7989/localhostscreencapture2.png" rel="nofollow">http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/7989/localhostscreencapture2.png</a></p>