Re: [Ganglia-developers] Regarding string metrics

2011-03-12 Thread Neil McKee
Here's another option to consider. Finding the top N of some category is addressed well using random-sampling of transactions, and a new extension to sFlow will allow HTTP servers to report transaction samples in a standard format: http://blog.sflow.com/2011/01/http.html The current draft it

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Regarding string metrics

2011-03-12 Thread Archana N
Hi, Thank you so much. This looks really interesting. I am working on a project to monitor the performance of lighttpd servers in a cloud environment(for resource provisioning purposes) . Also, in the blog, I was not clear by the term "response time". Is it the response time as perceived by the cl

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Regarding string metrics

2011-03-12 Thread Vladimir Vuksan
You could use Ganglia but depending on number of unique URLs this may not be such a great idea. I did something similar at a previous job to evaluate page response times (aggregated on hourly basis). You can find it here https://github.com/vvuksan/pagetime-analyzer I blogged about it here htt

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Regarding string metrics

2011-03-12 Thread Archana N
Hi, I was also thinking of having metrics for counting the number of access of a particular string, but the problem is I am working with an application which has many directories (similar to wordpress) and there are a lot of directories which get different amount of hits by the users and I would l