diff --git a/ambari-metrics/ambari-metrics-timelineservice/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/applicationhistoryservice/metrics/timeline/PhoenixHBaseAccessor.java b/ambari-metrics/ambari-metrics-timelineservice/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/applicationhistoryservice/metrics/timeline/PhoenixHBaseAccessor.java
index de413283a85..57f44568a6f 100644
--- a/ambari-metrics/ambari-metrics-timelineservice/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/applicationhistoryservice/metrics/timeline/PhoenixHBaseAccessor.java
+++ b/ambari-metrics/ambari-metrics-timelineservice/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/applicationhistoryservice/metrics/timeline/PhoenixHBaseAccessor.java
@@ -1195,17 +1195,7 @@ private Collection<List<Function>> findMetricFunctions(Multimap<String, List<Fun
     }
 
     for (String metricNameEntry : metricFunctions.keySet()) {
-
-      String metricRegEx;
-      //Special case handling for metric name with * and __%.
-      //For example, dfs.NNTopUserOpCounts.windowMs=300000.op=*.user=%.count
-      // or dfs.NNTopUserOpCounts.windowMs=300000.op=__%.user=%.count
-      if (metricNameEntry.contains("*") || metricNameEntry.contains("__%")) {
-        String metricNameWithEscSeq = metricNameEntry.replace("*", "\\*").replace("__%", "..%");
-        metricRegEx = metricNameWithEscSeq.replace("%", ".*");
-      } else {
-        metricRegEx = metricNameEntry.replace("%", ".*");
-      }
+      String metricRegEx = getJavaRegexFromSqlRegex(metricNameEntry);
       if (metricName.matches(metricRegEx)) {
         return metricFunctions.get(metricNameEntry);
       }
@@ -1214,6 +1204,20 @@ private Collection<List<Function>> findMetricFunctions(Multimap<String, List<Fun
     return null;
   }
 
+  public String getJavaRegexFromSqlRegex(String sqlRegex) {
+    String javaRegEx;
+    if (sqlRegex.contains("*") || sqlRegex.contains("__%")) {
+      //Special case handling for metric name with * and __%.
+      //For example, dfs.NNTopUserOpCounts.windowMs=300000.op=*.user=%.count
+      // or dfs.NNTopUserOpCounts.windowMs=300000.op=__%.user=%.count
+      String metricNameWithEscSeq = sqlRegex.replace("*", "\\*").replace("__%", "..%");
+      javaRegEx = metricNameWithEscSeq.replace("%", ".*");
+    } else {
+      javaRegEx = sqlRegex.replace("%", ".*");
+    }
+    return javaRegEx;
+  }
+
   public void saveHostAggregateRecords(Map<TimelineMetric, MetricHostAggregate> hostAggregateMap,
                                        String phoenixTableName) throws SQLException {
 
diff --git a/ambari-metrics/ambari-metrics-timelineservice/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/applicationhistoryservice/metrics/timeline/TimelineMetricConfiguration.java b/ambari-metrics/ambari-metrics-timelineservice/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/applicationhistoryservice/metrics/timeline/TimelineMetricConfiguration.java
index 8f18aa9329f..d9bf4976ddb 100644
--- a/ambari-metrics/ambari-metrics-timelineservice/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/applicationhistoryservice/metrics/timeline/TimelineMetricConfiguration.java
+++ b/ambari-metrics/ambari-metrics-timelineservice/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/applicationhistoryservice/metrics/timeline/TimelineMetricConfiguration.java
@@ -296,6 +296,9 @@ public class TimelineMetricConfiguration {
   public static final String TIMELINE_METRICS_SUPPORT_MULTIPLE_CLUSTERS =
     "timeline.metrics.support.multiple.clusters";
 
+  public static final String TIMELINE_METRICS_EVENT_METRIC_PATTERNS =
+    "timeline.metrics.downsampler.event.metric.patterns";
+
   public static final String HOST_APP_ID = "HOST";
 
   public static final String DEFAULT_INSTANCE_PORT = "12001";
diff --git a/ambari-metrics/ambari-metrics-timelineservice/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/applicationhistoryservice/metrics/timeline/aggregators/AbstractTimelineAggregator.java b/ambari-metrics/ambari-metrics-timelineservice/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/applicationhistoryservice/metrics/timeline/aggregators/AbstractTimelineAggregator.java
index 62f8137d178..af978af4c3c 100644
--- a/ambari-metrics/ambari-metrics-timelineservice/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/applicationhistoryservice/metrics/timeline/aggregators/AbstractTimelineAggregator.java
+++ b/ambari-metrics/ambari-metrics-timelineservice/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/applicationhistoryservice/metrics/timeline/aggregators/AbstractTimelineAggregator.java
@@ -429,11 +429,11 @@ private void runDownSamplerQuery(Connection conn, Condition condition) {
     try {
       stmt = PhoenixTransactSQL.prepareGetMetricsSqlStmt(conn, condition);
 
-      LOG.debug("Downsampler Query issued...");
+      LOG.debug("Downsampler Query issued : " + condition.getStatement());
       if (condition.doUpdate()) {
         int rows = stmt.executeUpdate();
         conn.commit();
-        LOG.info(rows + " row(s) updated in downsampling.");
+        LOG.debug(rows + " row(s) updated in downsampling.");
       } else {
         rs = stmt.executeQuery();
       }
diff --git a/ambari-metrics/ambari-metrics-timelineservice/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/applicationhistoryservice/metrics/timeline/aggregators/DownSamplerUtils.java b/ambari-metrics/ambari-metrics-timelineservice/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/applicationhistoryservice/metrics/timeline/aggregators/DownSamplerUtils.java
index b320e47212d..649eceefed1 100644
--- a/ambari-metrics/ambari-metrics-timelineservice/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/applicationhistoryservice/metrics/timeline/aggregators/DownSamplerUtils.java
+++ b/ambari-metrics/ambari-metrics-timelineservice/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/applicationhistoryservice/metrics/timeline/aggregators/DownSamplerUtils.java
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
 
 import java.util.ArrayList;
-import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Set;
@@ -38,7 +37,8 @@ public class DownSamplerUtils {
 
   public static final String downSamplerConfigPrefix = "timeline.metrics.downsampler.";
   public static final String downSamplerMetricPatternsConfig = "metric.patterns";
-  public static final String topNDownSampler = "topn";
+  public static final String topNDownSamplerKey = "topn";
+  public static final String eventDownSamplerKey = "event";
   private static final Log LOG = LogFactory.getLog(DownSamplerUtils.class);
 
 
@@ -108,10 +108,14 @@ public static CustomDownSampler getDownSamplerByType(String type, Map<String, St
       return null;
     }
 
-    if (StringUtils.isNotEmpty(type) && type.equalsIgnoreCase(topNDownSampler)) {
+    if (StringUtils.isNotEmpty(type) && type.equalsIgnoreCase(topNDownSamplerKey)) {
       return TopNDownSampler.fromConfig(conf);
     }
 
+    if (StringUtils.isNotEmpty(type) && type.equalsIgnoreCase(eventDownSamplerKey)) {
+      return EventMetricDownSampler.fromConfig(conf);
+    }
+
     LOG.warn("Unknown downsampler requested : " + type);
     return null;
   }
diff --git a/ambari-metrics/ambari-metrics-timelineservice/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/applicationhistoryservice/metrics/timeline/aggregators/EventMetricDownSampler.java b/ambari-metrics/ambari-metrics-timelineservice/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/applicationhistoryservice/metrics/timeline/aggregators/EventMetricDownSampler.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..18b4ac72f67
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ambari-metrics/ambari-metrics-timelineservice/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/applicationhistoryservice/metrics/timeline/aggregators/EventMetricDownSampler.java
@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.applicationhistoryservice.metrics.timeline.aggregators;
+
+import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
+import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import static org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.applicationhistoryservice.metrics.timeline.query.PhoenixTransactSQL.EVENT_DOWNSAMPLER_CLUSTER_METRIC_SELECT_SQL;
+import static org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.applicationhistoryservice.metrics.timeline.query.PhoenixTransactSQL.EVENT_DOWNSAMPLER_HOST_METRIC_SELECT_SQL;
+import static org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.applicationhistoryservice.metrics.timeline.query.PhoenixTransactSQL.METRICS_CLUSTER_AGGREGATE_TABLE_NAME;
+
+public class EventMetricDownSampler implements CustomDownSampler{
+
+  private String metricPatterns = "";
+  private static final Log LOG = LogFactory.getLog(EventMetricDownSampler.class);
+
+  public static EventMetricDownSampler fromConfig(Map<String, String> conf) {
+    String metricPatterns = conf.get(DownSamplerUtils.downSamplerConfigPrefix + DownSamplerUtils.eventDownSamplerKey + "." +
+      DownSamplerUtils.downSamplerMetricPatternsConfig);
+
+    return new EventMetricDownSampler(metricPatterns);
+  }
+
+  public EventMetricDownSampler(String metricPatterns) {
+    this.metricPatterns = metricPatterns;
+  }
+
+    @Override
+  public boolean validateConfigs() {
+    return true;
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public List<String> prepareDownSamplingStatement(Long startTime, Long endTime, String tableName) {
+    List<String> stmts = new ArrayList<>();
+    List<String> metricPatternList = Arrays.asList(metricPatterns.split(","));
+
+    String aggregateColumnName = "METRIC_COUNT";
+
+    if (tableName.equals(METRICS_CLUSTER_AGGREGATE_TABLE_NAME)) {
+      aggregateColumnName = "HOSTS_COUNT";
+    }
+
+    for (String metricPattern : metricPatternList) {
+      String metricPatternClause = "'" + metricPattern + "'";
+      if (tableName.contains("RECORD")) {
+        stmts.add(String.format(EVENT_DOWNSAMPLER_HOST_METRIC_SELECT_SQL,
+          endTime, tableName, metricPatternClause,
+          startTime, endTime));
+      } else {
+        stmts.add(String.format(EVENT_DOWNSAMPLER_CLUSTER_METRIC_SELECT_SQL,
+          endTime, aggregateColumnName, tableName, metricPatternClause,
+          startTime, endTime));
+      }
+    }
+
+    if (LOG.isDebugEnabled()) {
+      LOG.debug("Downsampling Stmt: " + stmts.toString());
+    }
+    return stmts;
+  }
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/ambari-metrics/ambari-metrics-timelineservice/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/applicationhistoryservice/metrics/timeline/aggregators/TimelineMetricClusterAggregatorSecond.java b/ambari-metrics/ambari-metrics-timelineservice/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/applicationhistoryservice/metrics/timeline/aggregators/TimelineMetricClusterAggregatorSecond.java
index e01402f40db..50eb2907b2e 100644
--- a/ambari-metrics/ambari-metrics-timelineservice/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/applicationhistoryservice/metrics/timeline/aggregators/TimelineMetricClusterAggregatorSecond.java
+++ b/ambari-metrics/ambari-metrics-timelineservice/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/applicationhistoryservice/metrics/timeline/aggregators/TimelineMetricClusterAggregatorSecond.java
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 
 import static org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.applicationhistoryservice.metrics.timeline.TimelineMetricConfiguration.SERVER_SIDE_TIMESIFT_ADJUSTMENT;
 import static org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.applicationhistoryservice.metrics.timeline.TimelineMetricConfiguration.TIMELINE_METRICS_CLUSTER_AGGREGATOR_INTERPOLATION_ENABLED;
+import static org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.applicationhistoryservice.metrics.timeline.TimelineMetricConfiguration.TIMELINE_METRICS_EVENT_METRIC_PATTERNS;
 import static org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.applicationhistoryservice.metrics.timeline.TimelineMetricConfiguration.TIMELINE_METRIC_AGGREGATION_SQL_FILTERS;
 import static org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.applicationhistoryservice.metrics.timeline.query.PhoenixTransactSQL.GET_METRIC_SQL;
 import static org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.applicationhistoryservice.metrics.timeline.query.PhoenixTransactSQL.METRICS_RECORD_TABLE_NAME;
@@ -31,8 +32,12 @@
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.Date;
 import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.HashSet;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Set;
+import java.util.regex.Matcher;
+import java.util.regex.Pattern;
 
 import org.apache.commons.collections.MapUtils;
 import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
@@ -63,7 +68,8 @@ public class TimelineMetricClusterAggregatorSecond extends AbstractTimelineAggre
   private final boolean interpolationEnabled;
   private TimelineMetricMetadataManager metadataManagerInstance;
   private String skipAggrPatternStrings;
-
+  private String skipInterpolationMetricPatternStrings;
+  private Set<Pattern> skipInterpolationMetricPatterns = new HashSet<>();
 
   public TimelineMetricClusterAggregatorSecond(AggregationTaskRunner.AGGREGATOR_NAME aggregatorName,
                                                TimelineMetricMetadataManager metadataManager,
@@ -88,6 +94,15 @@ public TimelineMetricClusterAggregatorSecond(AggregationTaskRunner.AGGREGATOR_NA
     this.serverTimeShiftAdjustment = Long.parseLong(metricsConf.get(SERVER_SIDE_TIMESIFT_ADJUSTMENT, "90000"));
     this.interpolationEnabled = Boolean.parseBoolean(metricsConf.get(TIMELINE_METRICS_CLUSTER_AGGREGATOR_INTERPOLATION_ENABLED, "true"));
     this.skipAggrPatternStrings = metricsConf.get(TIMELINE_METRIC_AGGREGATION_SQL_FILTERS);
+    this.skipInterpolationMetricPatternStrings = metricsConf.get(TIMELINE_METRICS_EVENT_METRIC_PATTERNS, "");
+
+    if (StringUtils.isNotEmpty(skipInterpolationMetricPatternStrings)) {
+      for (String patternString : skipInterpolationMetricPatternStrings.split(",")) {
+        String javaPatternString = hBaseAccessor.getJavaRegexFromSqlRegex(patternString);
+        LOG.info("SQL pattern " + patternString + " converted to Java pattern : " + javaPatternString);
+        skipInterpolationMetricPatterns.add(Pattern.compile(javaPatternString));
+      }
+    }
   }
 
   @Override
@@ -326,6 +341,14 @@ private void interpolateMissingPeriods(Map<TimelineClusterMetric, Double> timeli
                                          Map<Long, Double> timeSliceValueMap) {
 
 
+    for (Pattern pattern : skipInterpolationMetricPatterns) {
+      Matcher m = pattern.matcher(timelineMetric.getMetricName());
+      if (m.matches()) {
+        LOG.debug("Skipping interpolation for " + timelineMetric.getMetricName());
+        return;
+      }
+    }
+
     if (StringUtils.isNotEmpty(timelineMetric.getType()) && "COUNTER".equalsIgnoreCase(timelineMetric.getType())) {
       //For Counter Based metrics, ok to do interpolation and extrapolation
 
diff --git a/ambari-metrics/ambari-metrics-timelineservice/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/applicationhistoryservice/metrics/timeline/aggregators/TimelineMetricReadHelper.java b/ambari-metrics/ambari-metrics-timelineservice/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/applicationhistoryservice/metrics/timeline/aggregators/TimelineMetricReadHelper.java
index b5f49fb07c8..9606ee31965 100644
--- a/ambari-metrics/ambari-metrics-timelineservice/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/applicationhistoryservice/metrics/timeline/aggregators/TimelineMetricReadHelper.java
+++ b/ambari-metrics/ambari-metrics-timelineservice/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/applicationhistoryservice/metrics/timeline/aggregators/TimelineMetricReadHelper.java
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ public SingleValuedTimelineMetric getAggregatedTimelineMetricFromResultSet(Resul
         value = rs.getDouble("METRIC_MAX");
         break;
       case SUM:
-        value = rs.getDouble("METRIC_SUM") / rs.getInt("METRIC_COUNT");
+        value = rs.getDouble("METRIC_SUM");
         break;
       default:
         value = rs.getDouble("METRIC_SUM") / rs.getInt("METRIC_COUNT");
diff --git a/ambari-metrics/ambari-metrics-timelineservice/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/applicationhistoryservice/metrics/timeline/aggregators/TopNDownSampler.java b/ambari-metrics/ambari-metrics-timelineservice/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/applicationhistoryservice/metrics/timeline/aggregators/TopNDownSampler.java
index 59e44530f6c..520da0a8cc0 100644
--- a/ambari-metrics/ambari-metrics-timelineservice/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/applicationhistoryservice/metrics/timeline/aggregators/TopNDownSampler.java
+++ b/ambari-metrics/ambari-metrics-timelineservice/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/applicationhistoryservice/metrics/timeline/aggregators/TopNDownSampler.java
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ public class TopNDownSampler implements CustomDownSampler {
   protected String metricPatterns;
 
   public static TopNDownSampler fromConfig(Map<String, String> conf) {
-    String metricPatterns = conf.get(DownSamplerUtils.downSamplerConfigPrefix + "topn." +
+    String metricPatterns = conf.get(DownSamplerUtils.downSamplerConfigPrefix + DownSamplerUtils.topNDownSamplerKey + "." +
       DownSamplerUtils.downSamplerMetricPatternsConfig);
 
     String topNString = conf.get(DownSamplerUtils.downSamplerConfigPrefix + "topn.value");
diff --git a/ambari-metrics/ambari-metrics-timelineservice/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/applicationhistoryservice/metrics/timeline/query/PhoenixTransactSQL.java b/ambari-metrics/ambari-metrics-timelineservice/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/applicationhistoryservice/metrics/timeline/query/PhoenixTransactSQL.java
index d39230d3791..e55ff61324b 100644
--- a/ambari-metrics/ambari-metrics-timelineservice/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/applicationhistoryservice/metrics/timeline/query/PhoenixTransactSQL.java
+++ b/ambari-metrics/ambari-metrics-timelineservice/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/applicationhistoryservice/metrics/timeline/query/PhoenixTransactSQL.java
@@ -329,7 +329,7 @@ public class PhoenixTransactSQL {
     "INTO %s (METRIC_NAME, HOSTNAME, APP_ID, INSTANCE_ID, SERVER_TIME, UNITS, " +
     "METRIC_SUM, METRIC_COUNT, METRIC_MAX, METRIC_MIN) " +
     "SELECT METRIC_NAME, HOSTNAME, APP_ID, INSTANCE_ID, %s AS SERVER_TIME, UNITS, " +
-    "SUM(METRIC_SUM), SUM(METRIC_COUNT), MAX(METRIC_MAX), MIN(METRIC_MIN) " +
+    "ROUND(SUM(METRIC_SUM)/SUM(METRIC_COUNT),2), SUM(METRIC_COUNT), MAX(METRIC_MAX), MIN(METRIC_MIN) " +
     "FROM %s WHERE%s SERVER_TIME > %s AND SERVER_TIME <= %s " +
     "GROUP BY METRIC_NAME, HOSTNAME, APP_ID, INSTANCE_ID, UNITS";
 
@@ -364,6 +364,18 @@ public class PhoenixTransactSQL {
     " %s AS SERVER_TIME, UNITS, %s, 1, %s, %s FROM %s WHERE METRIC_NAME LIKE %s AND SERVER_TIME > %s AND SERVER_TIME <= %s " +
     "GROUP BY METRIC_NAME, APP_ID, INSTANCE_ID, UNITS ORDER BY %s DESC LIMIT %s";
 
+  /**
+   * Event based downsampler SELECT query.
+   */
+  public static final String EVENT_DOWNSAMPLER_HOST_METRIC_SELECT_SQL = "SELECT METRIC_NAME, HOSTNAME, APP_ID, INSTANCE_ID, " +
+    "%s AS SERVER_TIME, UNITS, SUM(METRIC_SUM), SUM(METRIC_COUNT), MAX(METRIC_MAX), MIN(METRIC_MIN) " +
+    "FROM %s WHERE METRIC_NAME LIKE %s AND SERVER_TIME > %s AND SERVER_TIME <= %s GROUP BY METRIC_NAME, HOSTNAME, APP_ID, INSTANCE_ID, UNITS";
+
+  public static final String EVENT_DOWNSAMPLER_CLUSTER_METRIC_SELECT_SQL = "SELECT METRIC_NAME, APP_ID, " +
+    "INSTANCE_ID, %s AS SERVER_TIME, UNITS, SUM(METRIC_SUM), SUM(%s), " +
+    "MAX(METRIC_MAX), MIN(METRIC_MIN) FROM %s WHERE METRIC_NAME LIKE %s AND SERVER_TIME > %s AND " +
+    "SERVER_TIME <= %s GROUP BY METRIC_NAME, APP_ID, INSTANCE_ID, UNITS";
+
   public static final String METRICS_RECORD_TABLE_NAME = "METRIC_RECORD";
 
   public static final String CONTAINER_METRICS_TABLE_NAME = "CONTAINER_METRICS";
diff --git a/ambari-metrics/ambari-metrics-timelineservice/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/applicationhistoryservice/metrics/timeline/aggregators/DownSamplerTest.java b/ambari-metrics/ambari-metrics-timelineservice/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/applicationhistoryservice/metrics/timeline/aggregators/DownSamplerTest.java
index a0fea40d7b4..d02d2a89af2 100644
--- a/ambari-metrics/ambari-metrics-timelineservice/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/applicationhistoryservice/metrics/timeline/aggregators/DownSamplerTest.java
+++ b/ambari-metrics/ambari-metrics-timelineservice/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/applicationhistoryservice/metrics/timeline/aggregators/DownSamplerTest.java
@@ -92,4 +92,24 @@ public void testPrepareTopNDownSamplingStatement() throws Exception {
       "METRIC_NAME LIKE 'pattern1' AND SERVER_TIME > 14000000 AND SERVER_TIME <= 14100000 " +
       "GROUP BY METRIC_NAME, APP_ID, INSTANCE_ID, UNITS ORDER BY SUM(METRIC_SUM) DESC LIMIT 4"));
   }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testPrepareEventDownSamplingStatement() throws Exception {
+    Configuration configuration = new Configuration();
+    configuration.setIfUnset("timeline.metrics.downsampler.event.metric.patterns", "pattern1,pattern2");
+
+    Map<String, String> conf = configuration.getValByRegex(DownSamplerUtils.downSamplerConfigPrefix);
+
+    EventMetricDownSampler eventMetricDownSampler = EventMetricDownSampler.fromConfig(conf);
+    List<String> stmts = eventMetricDownSampler.prepareDownSamplingStatement(14000000l, 14100000l, "METRIC_RECORD");
+    Assert.assertEquals(stmts.size(),2);
+
+    Assert.assertTrue(stmts.get(0).equals("SELECT METRIC_NAME, HOSTNAME, APP_ID, INSTANCE_ID, 14100000 AS SERVER_TIME, " +
+      "UNITS, SUM(METRIC_SUM), SUM(METRIC_COUNT), MAX(METRIC_MAX), MIN(METRIC_MIN) FROM METRIC_RECORD WHERE METRIC_NAME " +
+      "LIKE 'pattern1' AND SERVER_TIME > 14000000 AND SERVER_TIME <= 14100000 GROUP BY METRIC_NAME, HOSTNAME, APP_ID, INSTANCE_ID, UNITS"));
+
+    Assert.assertTrue(stmts.get(1).equals("SELECT METRIC_NAME, HOSTNAME, APP_ID, INSTANCE_ID, 14100000 AS SERVER_TIME, " +
+      "UNITS, SUM(METRIC_SUM), SUM(METRIC_COUNT), MAX(METRIC_MAX), MIN(METRIC_MIN) FROM METRIC_RECORD WHERE METRIC_NAME " +
+      "LIKE 'pattern2' AND SERVER_TIME > 14000000 AND SERVER_TIME <= 14100000 GROUP BY METRIC_NAME, HOSTNAME, APP_ID, INSTANCE_ID, UNITS"));
+  }
 }
diff --git a/ambari-server/src/main/resources/common-services/AMBARI_METRICS/0.1.0/configuration/ams-site.xml b/ambari-server/src/main/resources/common-services/AMBARI_METRICS/0.1.0/configuration/ams-site.xml
index b9f534e66ac..bcbcabd1a1b 100644
--- a/ambari-server/src/main/resources/common-services/AMBARI_METRICS/0.1.0/configuration/ams-site.xml
+++ b/ambari-server/src/main/resources/common-services/AMBARI_METRICS/0.1.0/configuration/ams-site.xml
@@ -720,4 +720,16 @@
     <value>{{cluster_zookeeper_clientPort}}</value>
     <on-ambari-upgrade add="true"/>
   </property>
+  <property>
+    <name>timeline.metrics.downsampler.event.metric.patterns</name>
+    <value></value>
+    <description>
+      Commas separated list of metric name regular expressions that are like events. No interpolation will be done for such
+      metrics, and the downsampling SUM aggregators will sum the values across time instead of averaging them out.
+    </description>
+    <value-attributes>
+      <empty-value-valid>true</empty-value-valid>
+    </value-attributes>
+    <on-ambari-upgrade add="true"/>
+  </property>
 </configuration>