[Phpmyadmin-devel] GSoC - Server Stats

[Marc Delisle]

Philip Frank a écrit :
> 2010/4/1 Marc Delisle <marc at infomarc.info>:
>> Philip Frank a écrit :
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> I'm a student from Munich, Germany and stumbled across the GSoC Idea
>>> of collecting the data that is shown on the server status page and
>>> rendering them as graphs over time. I will apply in the next days,
>>> here is what I thought of implementing when I'm accepted:
>>>
>>> Data collection: In the past, I used rrdtool to collect stats on a
>>> server. Its datastore has a limited size - over time old entries get
>>> merged together and the data gets thinner, but is never completely
>>> deleted. Unfortunately, it is not very portable. Therefor, I would
>>> implement a similarily behaving datastore ontop of a mysql table. I
>>> think of storing each set of measures as a row and limit the number of
>>> total rows, making room for new entries by combining one pair of
>>> neighbouring old entries together.
>> Hi Philip,
>> so you plan that an external process will collect data? Please have a
>> look on this list archives, this was discussed a few days ago.
>>
> 
> Hi Marc,
> i thought the process could be triggered by a cron, but if that is not
> an option, historic data can not be collected, i guess. How about a
> live monitoring tool? I could create a visualisation of the ratios of
> the different query types. Constantly updating that with ajax would be
> nice, and maybe even collecting the data in the browser and plotting
> graphes.

As discussed on the list, asking users to setup cron is out of
phpMyAdmin's scope. Live monitoring tool is interesting.

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Marc Delisle
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