One metric to rule them all?

Posted by James Palmer on 13-Nov-2015 06:33

Hoping to spark off some friendly discussion with this more than anything. 

You're able to monitor one performance metric on a database. Only one. Nothing else. Which metric do you choose and why? 

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Posted by ChUIMonster on 13-Nov-2015 06:38

Did you learn nothing from LOTR?

One does not simply monitor a single metric.

Posted by jmls on 13-Nov-2015 06:41

Oh, yes you can! I did for years.

Is it running ?

:)

Posted by ChUIMonster on 13-Nov-2015 06:58

If you're going to be like that then the better metric would be "are the users happy?"

Posted by jmls on 13-Nov-2015 07:02

nope. because users are never happy ;) that's a single-state metric ...

Posted by James Palmer on 13-Nov-2015 07:06

Ok so it's a stupid question. I get that. Let me fix it a little.

Top 10 metrics? Is that more reasonable?! ;)

Posted by Abri Venter on 13-Nov-2015 07:14

I would like to see how much data is being read from DB but never used. Or in other words how much is bad queries costing me. (Is that considered just one metric ??)

Posted by Brian Bowman on 13-Nov-2015 07:26

How about this…
 
If you could create a single magical metric that you could monitor what would it be?
 
It could be a conglomeration of a bunch of other metrics weighted appropriately…

Brian
 
Brian L. Bowman
 
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Progress Software Corporation
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Phone: +1 (603) 801-8259
Email: bowman@progress.com
 
 

Posted by James Palmer on 13-Nov-2015 08:01

Abri, that's going to be really hard to monitor from a server side perspective, although it would be possible with -zqilv switched on on the clients and then looking at the DB logs. BUT (and it's a very big but), it will grow you DB log files at an unmanageable rate so it's not practical. There's stuff about this sort of thing from a developer's perspective here: www.jdpalmer.co.uk/index.php

Posted by James Palmer on 13-Nov-2015 08:03

Yes [mention:b95db7be848d40f8a39db30310edfa01:e9ed411860ed4f2ba0265705b8793d05] that's heading in the right sort of direction I guess. :) 

The thinly veiled purpose behind my question is to gain inspiration for what I could/should be monitoring in order to take a more proactive approach to monitoring. 

Posted by gus on 13-Nov-2015 08:17

user satisfaction.

everything else is a proxy for that.

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Posted by James Palmer on 13-Nov-2015 08:19

How would you measure that @gus

Posted by gus on 19-Nov-2015 12:53

You talk to some of them

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