ESX LiteStats - Detail?

[ttmader]

Hi,

I have sexigraf implemented but when I try to see more details (30 days ago) the graph is is different.

Here is a comparison from vSphere Client and Sexigraf.

Can you put more detail on this graph?

Thank you very much.

Greetings.

[rschitz]

Hi, it is expected for small spikes to be averaged for several reasons:

• we wanted a lightweight appliance even with 100000+ vms monitored
• we wanted the be able to keep 5y old data
• we wanted the appliance to stay fast even with 100000+ vms monitored
• we wanted to be able to display several tiny graphs in the dashboards and not having trouble to read it like this:

For all those reasons we choose this storage schema : 5m:24h,10m:48h,60m:7d,240m:30d,720m:90d,2880m:1y,5760m:2y,17280m:5y you'll find the details of how it works here : https://graphite.readthedocs.io/en/latest/config-carbon.html

if you need more granularity, i can give you the method to change it and reconfigure the existing files but the size of the appliance will grow so if you have a lot of vms you might need to check the free space

[rschitz]

FYI i'm working on a way to solve that in the future without having to scarifying the space. something like mixing avg and max values

[ttmader]

I was really blown away by the ability to collect so many metrics with very little storage. It's amazing. Everyone talks about Sexigraf, at first they laugh but then they realize how powerful it is.

However, many times, our bosses want metrics and more metrics. This is what I need :(

I am going to check what granunality we need but if you can tell me how to change it I would be grateful. We will have to see how much storage grows. I have a very small environment, about 2500 vms

A new version? Cool!

Thank you very much for answering so quickly!

[rschitz]

Thanks for your support. Changing granularity is easy, there is the graphite configuration (for future whisper files) and the change we must apply on the existing whisper files. Just let me know what you'd like and i'll tell you how to do it. As of now, in the last 30d period there is 720 minutes between points

[ttmader]

Hi,

Have you been able to review the steps I must follow to change this granularity?

Thanks.