[Ganglia-general] Custom Graphs Question

2009-07-14 Thread Josh Blender
I've been looking high and low for a solution to this, but haven't found anything. I'm sure somebody has had this requirement before: I want to create custom graphs (reports) that include 1 metric from each server in the cluster. For example, if I have a custom metric that samples MySQL queries

Re: [Ganglia-general] Custom Graphs Question

2009-07-14 Thread Jesse Becker
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 10:57, Josh Blenderjsbli...@gmail.com wrote: I've been looking high and low for a solution to this, but haven't found anything.  I'm sure somebody has had this requirement before: I want to create custom graphs (reports) that include 1 metric from each server in the

Re: [Ganglia-general] Custom Graphs Question

2009-07-14 Thread Richard Edward Horner
I don't THINK you can do this with a simple call to ganglia's existing graph.php but I'd have to examine the source code before I could say definitively. However, if you have all the relevant RRAs available at the same place, you can generate the graph you're talking about with a single call to

[Ganglia-general] special metric names in diskusage.pyconf file

2009-07-14 Thread Guolin Cheng
Hi, Any one knows what the metric name disk_used-metric-name stands for? The stanza is from diskusage.pyconf file, ganglia version 3.1.1/2. collection_group { ... metric { name = disk_used-metric-name ... } ... It looks like that the name stands for a series of metrics

Re: [Ganglia-general] special metric names in diskusage.pyconf file

2009-07-14 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 7/14/2009 at 4:36 PM, in message 4120cbd6bbd82647b89d6a70694510bed1c...@exchange02.presidio.alexa.com, Guolin Cheng guo...@alexa.com wrote: Hi, Any one knows what the metric name disk_used-metric-name stands for? The stanza is from diskusage.pyconf file, ganglia version 3.1.1/2.

Re: [Ganglia-general] special metric names in diskusage.pyconf file

2009-07-14 Thread Guolin Cheng
Brad and all, Thanks a lot for clear explanation. But manual/automatic file editing doesn't directly fit well here. The basic problem is, as you said, 'chicken and eggs' type question. Gmond runs python metric module to generate metric descriptors list which forms the basis for metric