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Chris Lohfink commented on CASSANDRA-11752:
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ExponentiallyDecayingReservoir is based on idea of that the data has a normal
distribution, in latencies with long tails (ie GCs) the max/99th quickly
becomes very inaccurate as more and more data goes through it.
The EH does not by itself provide a "recent" view but you can derive it easily
enough. Probably a change to hdr histogram, or adding an exp decay to the EH,
or exposing the clear operation on the mbean (reset when you read them) would
help. but using random sampling for latencies is the wrong direction imho.
> histograms/metrics in 2.2 do not appear recency biased
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> Key: CASSANDRA-11752
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-11752
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Core
> Reporter: Chris Burroughs
> Labels: metrics
> Attachments: boost-metrics.png, c-jconsole-comparison.png,
> c-metrics.png, default-histogram.png
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> In addition to upgrading to metrics3, CASSANDRA-5657 switched to using a
> custom histogram implementation. After upgrading to Cassandra 2.2
> histograms/timer metrics are not suspiciously flat. To be useful for
> graphing and alerting metrics need to be biased towards recent events.
> I have attached images that I think illustrate this.
> * The first two are a comparison between latency observed by a C* 2.2 (us)
> cluster shoring very flat lines and a client (using metrics 2.2.0, ms)
> showing server performance problems. We can't rule out with total certainty
> that something else isn't the cause (that's why we measure from both the
> client & server) but they very rarely disagree.
> * The 3rd image compares jconsole viewing of metrics on a 2.2 and 2.1
> cluster over several minutes. Not a single digit changed on the 2.2 cluster.
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