Stephen Turner wrote:
> On Fri, 5 May 2000, Jeremy Wadsack wrote:
> >
> > So what you're really getting at is that you want a "QUARTERLY" and "FIVELY" report
> > in addition to (or instead of) the current "(FULL)QUARTER" and "(FULL)FIVE"
>reports.
> > This makes sense to me. In fact I would find that much more useful that the current
> > ones. I've yet to find someone who really want to know the activity in five-minute
> > intervals for the last 3 days.
>
> I know some, that's why I added it. It's useful for spotting peak levels of
> activity for server load etc.
Except that you are inundated with information that you don't want and have to search
through the report (which in five-minute intervals, unless you are searching on a daily
basis, is a lot of lines) for the peak point. The whole point of Analog is to analyse
the
data and produce reports of useful information, so you don't have to parse it by hand.
So
finding spots of peak activity would be better handled by Analog. For example, a
PEAKTIME
report could through some algorithm (I know this is very hard for web traffic) or a
FLOOR
setting decided what a 'peak' item is and only list those.
> > But knowing your average daily usage in five-minue
> > intervals could be quite useful
>
> On the other hand, I can't really imagine this being useful. Does a
> Five-Minute Summary really give you much more information than an Hourly
> Summary? But I'll add it to the wishlist.
I guess I'd really have to see the data. Probably, you're right -- a five-minute
summary,
even across a large sample, would produce a very noisy signal. And cleaning that up
would
result in essentially the hourly summary, just curved.
Jeremy Wadsack
Wadsack-Allen Digital Group
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