Add --delta-threshold to pt-stalk that will monitor variables delta between samples

Registered by markus_albe

pt-stalk allows to set a --threshold for --variable value, but most variables in SHOW GLOBAL STATUS; increase monotonically, such that to be able to monitor these you always have to write a small plugin that works like this:

# not tested, but you'll get the idea
last_sample=0
if [ -f "$tmppath/previous-plugin-sample.dat" ]; then {
  last_sample=$(cat $tmppath/previous-plugin-sample.dat);
} fi;
current_sample=$(mysql -BNe "SHOW GLOBAL STATUS" |grep <wanted-var> |awk '{print $2}');
delta=$(($current_sample-$last_sample));
echo $current_sample > $tmppath/previous-plugin-sample.dat;
echo $delta;

Having an integrated mechanism to do this would be a great addition, and truly useful for almost anyone using pt-stalk often, allowing to monitor things like Opened_tables, Slow_queries, Threads_created, and many others that are quite significative performance indicators and can't currently be tracked easily

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