On 4 May 2011 04:57, Gregory Szorc <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 7:28 AM, Lindsay Holmwood <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> I'd be very interested to hear how you think Visage compares with >> Graphite. > > I haven't used Visage, but I just watched the video at > http://auxesis.github.com/visage/ and already think Visage is one of the > best RRD visualizers. I share your opinion that the graphing portion of RRD > lacks and I believe your approach of using newer visualizer tools/technology > without sacrificing the RRD storage format (for better or worse - the > Graphite people have opinions worth reading on that) is worth pursuing.
That's awesome to hear, really appreciate the feedback! > > Visage and Graphite both have interactive graphs, wildcard/dynamic metrics > collections/graphing, and the ability to save graphs (all features that I > don't want to live without once I've used). However, it appears Graphite > still has an edge when it comes to data transformations. With Graphite, you > can perform functions on data, such as summing, taking derivatives or > integrals, calculate moving average, filter min or max values, etc. This is > all done dynamically, of course. If Visage (or any other RRD front-end) > could do that, I think it would be on roughly equal ground with Graphite. Yeah, those Graphite features are really awesome. Unfortunately a lot of the dev time on Visage has been spent getting the RRD data rendering consistently. Once the 1.0 release is out later this week, I should be able to re-focus on the visualisation and overall UX. Anyhow, thanks again for the feedback! Lindsay -- w: http://holmwood.id.au/~lindsay/ t: @auxesis _______________________________________________ collectd mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.verplant.org/listinfo/collectd
