[hobbit] Hobbit versus Unicenter/TNG

[Tom Georgoulias]

PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote:
>>>> tomg at mcclatchyinteractive.com 02/15/07 8:39 AM >>>
>> Anyway, one of the useless stats that is being thrown about by 
>> a third party is the number of different data points they will 
>> monitor, and I was asked to provide a similar number of my 
>> own.

> What is meant by "different data points" ?

Honestly, I'm not sure what they meant when they said that.  I take it 
to mean a total count of all the individual pieces of data that are 
recorded in an rrd or status display during a round of testing, both 
from network tests, server side tests, and client side tests.  My mysql 
monitoring script alone collects 83 different data points each run, and 
that's just one of a handful of custom scripts we are using to watch our 
operations.  I know I have an *incredible* amount of data and way more 
than anyone else is going to be able to collect with an off the shelf tools.

If there were some easy way to see how many different values were 
inserted into my rrd files in about a 5 minute period, I'd be golden.

> When we got into that discussion here, I just did a sort unique on 
> the test column.  That alone was over 300 items.  After that, the 
> vendor hung their head and left.

I'm sure I could do the same, given the chance.  ;)
-- 
Tom Georgoulias
Systems Engineer
McClatchy Interactive
tomg at mcclatchyinteractive.com