Can Hyperic overlay metrics on one chart?

[damosca]

Can Hyperic place more than one metric on a graph?
So far, all I have been able to do is get one metric per graph.

I would like to overlay multiple metrics on the same graph.

[admin]

You can overlay metrics for multiple resources on a single chart,
provided that they are the same metric for that resource type. This
would be done through grouping those resources together. If you are
looking to chart multiple metrics from a single resource, that is not
currently available. It's a difficult problem to reconcile between
different units and potentially vastly different values on one single
chart.

Charles

[hypermike]

Is this available throught the Open Source or only through th EE version ???

[staceyeschneide]

Open Source as well as EE.

Also, we're actively building more sophisticated reporting capabilities for the summer release, Minerva. Check out the Product Roadmap Forum for more details. We're going to have some first previews of the reports early next week - and they can be installed using a manual process on your current build. We could definitely use some help to test them out and give us feedback.

[JohnMarkOrg]

Hi Mike,

I can show you a couple of screenshots of this in action. See attached.

-John Mark

[dsully_hyperic]

GNUPlot can handle plotting multiple resources of different types/scales with no problem.

Perhaps look into how it handles this functionality?

I've been evaluating Hyperic, and this is a show stopper for me.

Think CPU & Memory usage on one chart.

Thanks

[staceyeschneide]

Hi Dsully,

Yes, we agree that we need more information on reporting and charting which is why we are working with JasperSoft. If you go to the Product Roadmap forums there is a great post and someone that got it working on their own. This may provide some of the detail that you need.

Thanks,
-Stacey

[admin]

Hi Dan,

Have you tried the indicator charts? They're designed for this specific purpose. You can plot any number of metrics from any resource on a common timeline. As Charles and others have mentioned, we'll be adding the ability to plot this onto a single chart in a future release, but the indicator charts might do what you need (and hopefully more).

It's explained here: http://support.hyperic.com/confluence/display/DOCSHQ30/Monitoring+Visibility

In your example...

Go to the monitoring page for one of your platforms. By default, you'll have a handful of 'indicator' metrics shown (5m load, free memory, free memory +buf/cache, and so on). You can build a view that stacks the cpu usage, plus whatever other metrics you care about by selecting the checkbox on the left hand side next to the resource whose metrics you want... the CPU(s) for example. Then, click the "view metrics" button to have the lower left hand corner be populated with metrics from the linux machine, plus whatever you've selected. From here, you can add any metric into the indicator stack, reorder them, and save the view as either the default or some other personalized view. Each resource can have multiple personalized indicator views which might showcase different interactions between metrics across layers of your infrastructure.

Hope this helps.
-javier

[djinn_fr]

Following the same idea, a way to mix indicators is to create an application with different indicators. And from there, go to the monitor and create a view.

2 suggestion for improvement

- the way to add indicator to the application.
it's a pain to go through the long list of services in the inventory tab. It will much easier if, in the metic chart, there was a link (like save chart or export CSV ) to add the metric to an application.

- add a portlet "saved views" in the dashboard.
if people saved views, it's because it's useful, so there should be a portlet called "saved views" in the dashboard.