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[Martin Pool <mbp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 24 June 2011 10:20, John Arbash Meinel <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> I've put this into
>> <https://code.launchpad.net/~mbp/launchpad/event-stats>.  I think I'm
>> going to shelve it until the picture for what stats back end will be
>> used is more clear, and hopefully until it moves to something more
>> powerful to tuolumne.
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>> Martin
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> What if, as a migration path, you just have a txstatsd-alike that writes
> out to the data location that tuolumne scrapes?
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> lpstats got a lot faster once we started using the right indexes. I
> don't know what specifically you want out of graphite (though maybe it
> just has more graphing options, etc.)
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> But certainly it seems like you could integrate UDP-send-from-in-app to
> tuolumne without any big problems.

Yes, I could, that's the plan I outlined in my previous mail.  It's
just that having played with graphite this week, going to tuolumne is
a bit of a let down:

 * creating and saving new graphs is a matter of seconds not minutes
 * you can do math, with a large choice of functions, within the app
 * load times are much faster (though that might now be approved)
 * available metrics are in a tree organization, not a long flat list
 * more options for how to arrange the graphs

Obviously you can still get the data we want so it's still worth doing
but it's more hassle and a worse payoff.

m