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Update description/title of Partition Balance visualization

Open hcoyote opened this issue 2 years ago • 1 comments

Discussion here: https://redpandadata.slack.com/archives/C02JDTMG8GN/p1703184448433599

tl;dr: Today we have a "Partition Balance" graph that provides a percentage-based view of how balanced the partitions are on the cluster.

The intention of this graph is to show a red/yellow/green view of how balanced the partition writes are, not how balanced the partitions are across the cluster (e.g., the spread of partition counts on each broker).

We should update the title and add a description to clarify this.

If we don't already have it, we should probably also have a separate metric pointing to the partition count spread.

hcoyote avatar Dec 22 '23 16:12 hcoyote

We should probably get this fixed sooner rather than later. Another thread where someone found it confusing.

https://redpandacommunity.slack.com/archives/C01AJDUT88N/p1705983556876499

hcoyote avatar Jan 23 '24 17:01 hcoyote