Hello John, On Fri, Mar 02, 2018 at 01:04:11PM +0200, John Cherouvim wrote: > Hello > > My stats page (haproxy version: 1.8.4-1ppa1~xenial) shows some values as > "20000" and others as "2 000" (note the thousands spacing). The CSV in > question shows the numbers without spaces: > > backend_varnish,varnish,0,0,0,0,20000,0,0,0,,0,,0,0,0,0,no > > check,1,1,0,,,92203,,,1,3,1,,0,,2,0,,0,,,,0,0,0,0,0,0,,,,,0,0,,,,,-1,,,0,0,0,0,,,,,,,,,,,,,,http,,,,,,,, > > backend_varnish,BACKEND,0,0,0,0,2000,0,0,0,0,0,,0,0,0,0,UP,1,1,0,,0,92203,0,,1,3,0,,0,,1,0,,0,,,,0,0,0,0,0,0,,,,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,-1,,,0,0,0,0,,,,,,,,,,,,,,http,,,,,,,, > > Also, in the errors section it shows "25 131" (has space) in Errors > Conns > but "213832" (no space) in Warnings > Retr. > > Is this an HTML templating bug of the stats page? Or is there a reason for > this kind of presentation?
It should not be a bug, the spacing is intentional to make large numbers more readable. It's really important when you are looking at a large page with tens of servers showing very large numbers. To give you an idea, a server delivering 10 Gbps of traffic will emit half a petabyte per week, and these numbers are too large to remain readable. I tried to use larger units but that makes them not move anymore (eg: for servers remaining up for a very long time), so in the end, visually splitting the numbers seems like the best solution. It's possible that it's not applied to every single number, as some such as connection errors or retries are hardly supposed to be large. The way the spacing is done ensures that you can still select the number and copy-paste it anywhere without copying the spaces (eg for calculations). Ideally we should have small spaces on every possibly large number. Hoping this helps, Willy
