Since a similar discussion is being held where I work. Never thought that would happen given the success we've had with Hobbit and the massive customizations I've added, but that is another discussion entirely.
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. I have about 9 custom scripts mixed up on the server and client sides, each of which gather anywhere from 4 to 40 data points per script.
Looking at the data under hobbitd, is there an easy way to determine how much data (in the form of individual data points going into an RRD file) monitored coming in from the clients? I found the network tests data under the bbtest column, but figuring out what really matters under the hobbitd column is a bit more challenging. Most of my client data comes in the "status" channel, but some is also going into the data channel.
If it helps at all, here are my current hobbitd stats:
Statistics for Hobbit daemon
Up since 13-Feb-2007 07:59:08 (2 days, 00:30:01)
Incoming messages : 1980761
- status : 1694626
- combo : 240323
- page : 5924
- summary : 0
- data : 33464
- client : 1031
- notes : 0
- enable : 3
- disable : 19
- ack : 0
- config : 0
- query : 1160
- hobbitdboard : 2850
- hobbitdlog : 697
- drop : 8
- rename : 0
- dummy : 580
- ping : 0
- notify : 22
- schedule : 44
- download : 0
- Bogus/Timeouts : 10
Incoming messages/sec : 11 (average last 300 seconds)
status channel messages: 1691796 (1 readers)
stachg channel messages: 3621 (1 readers)
page channel messages: 2327 (1 readers)
data channel messages: 33472 (1 readers)
notes channel messages: 0 (0 readers)
enadis channel messages: 0 (0 readers)
client channel messages: 935 (1 readers)
clichg channel messages: 0 (1 readers)
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Tom Georgoulias
Systems Engineer
McClatchy Interactive
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