[hobbit] More Granular data than 300 second samples, duh!

[Stef Coene]

On Monday 15 October 2007, Stef Coene wrote:
> On Monday 15 October 2007, Scott Walters wrote:
> > One of the most common requests to the trending of data is "How do I
> > make the charts graph data samples which are smaller than 300
> > seconds?"  And the answer has been, you have the source, have fun.
> >
> > The original design decision that Henrik inherited was larrd should
> > only be for capacity planning and NOT real-time performance analysis.
> > Do one thing and do it well.
> >
> > I had a thought the other day, and I think we could possibly get the
> > "best of both worlds."
I once had the plan (but not the time) to change how to info is collected.  
For vmstat, you can run
vmstat 1 300
Process the data on the client, find the max, min and average and report the 
data to the hobbit server.  So you still have the 5 minute updates (the 
average is the same number as what is reported now), but you also have the 
maximum and minimum from the 5 minutes.


Stef