Re: [Ganglia-general] Hierarchical metric names

2011-12-13 Thread Daniel Pocock
> Is there interest in formalizing a hierarchical naming convention for > metrics in Ganglia? > I agree that Ganglia's existing methods are very simplistic. On the positive side, they are very easy to understand and they are both sufficient and effective for simple situations On the other ha

Re: [Ganglia-general] Gmetric Kilobyte unit representation

2011-12-13 Thread Vladimir Vuksan
Instead of sending value as kilobytes send it as Bytes (multiply with 1024 obviously prior to sending). RRDtool will scale the graph for you correctly. Vladimir On Tue, 13 Dec 2011, Aidan Wong wrote: Thank you Alex for the info. I was apparently wishful thinking about Ganglia capabilitiesÅ 

[Ganglia-general] Hierarchical metric names

2011-12-13 Thread Peter Phaal
There are many cases where you might want to enumerate the same set of metrics across a number of instances on the host. 1. Metrics for each filesystem. 2. Metrics for each VM running on a hypervisor 3. Metrics for each Java virtual machine (each Hadoop node runs multiple java VMs) 4. Metrics for

[Ganglia-general] Ganglia Web 2.2.0 released

2011-12-13 Thread Vladimir Vuksan
Ganglia Web 2.2.0 has been released. Announcement is here http://ganglia.info/?p=479 Noteable changes are described here http://ganglia.info/?p=464 Thanks to Peter Piela and Jeff Buchbinder for their vast amount of contributions to this release. Vladimir -

Re: [Ganglia-general] O'Reilly eBook on Ganglia

2011-12-13 Thread Matt Massie
Thanks for all the replies. I've been silently taking down notes. Feel free to keep the ideas coming. -Matt On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 6:43 AM, Chris Burroughs wrote: > On 12/09/2011 07:51 PM, Matt Massie wrote: > > What are the things you would be most interested in? Are there other > > topics

Re: [Ganglia-general] O'Reilly eBook on Ganglia

2011-12-13 Thread Chris Burroughs
On 12/09/2011 07:51 PM, Matt Massie wrote: > What are the things you would be most interested in? Are there other > topics you'd like to see covered? I would also like to see more details on how and why for different common variations. For example, some people set 'host' to something other than