Hi Liehann, if you don't mind the individual updates not going into the database, then you can easily use rrdtool. you just may have to add a pre-processing step that gobbles up the data from the webserver for an rrd-step and then feeds it to rrdtool
cheers tobi > Hi Tobias, > > My previous response should have been replied to the list, my > apologies for the direct response. > > I also wanted to clarify - I wanted to roll up metrics into 1min, > 5min, and 60min buckets, then graph metrics for the buckets over > several hours / days. rrdtool already does pretty much everything - > calculating averages, percentiles etc., which made it really > appealing, but if, as you said, its not the right tool, then so be it. > > If anyone knows of a tool that can do these kind of metrics I would > appreciate a link. So far everything Google returns seems to be backed > by rrdtool, a sign that its a good tool I suppose :-) > > Regards, > Liehann > > On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Tobias Oetiker <[email protected]> wrote: > > Liehann, > > > > for per-call metrics, rrdtool is not the right choice. > > > > cheers > > tobi > > > > > > Today Liehann Loots wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I'm investigation what the best tool would be for monitoring > >> applications and web services. > >> > >> rrd seems pretty awesome but there is one problem I'm not sure how to > >> work around. rrd stores data in second granularity. I want to store > >> call metrics - for every call there will be a datapoint. If there is > >> more than one call per second there will be more than one datapoint > >> per second, which rrd can't store. > >> > >> Is there a way to solve this problem? > >> > >> Regards, > >> Liehann > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> rrd-users mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/rrd-users > >> > >> > > > > -- > > Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15 CH-4600 Olten, Switzerland > > http://it.oetiker.ch [email protected] ++41 62 775 9902 / sb: -9900 > > > > _______________________________________________ > rrd-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/rrd-users > > -- Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15 CH-4600 Olten, Switzerland http://it.oetiker.ch [email protected] ++41 62 775 9902 / sb: -9900 _______________________________________________ rrd-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/rrd-users
