Account Diagnostics
Learn how to check your account diagnostics on your hosted graphite platform.
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We provide a useful summary of your account activity on your account profile page in the Incoming Traffic graph. You can navigate to this by selecting the “Account Diagnostics” submenu from the “Metrics” tab.
This card provides a quick overview of your recent traffic. The icon in the status column provides information on your last received data. The green icon indicates that we have seen data arrive recently on that interface. The yellow and red icons show that no data has arrived on that interface for at least 5 and 15 minutes respectively. The blue icon indicates that we have never seen any traffic on that interface.
In the graph above, the orange line is the live metric limit - the number of metrics you can update in a rolling 5-minute period. One metric name might look something like ‘
my.server.cpu.load’. In this example it is set at 10,000, allowing 10,000 metric names to be sent at the same time.The yellow line is the number of live metrics incoming for the account, on this graph it fluctuates between around 5,000 and 6,000 live metrics. When we see more than the limit sent at the same time, some metrics will be dropped. Note: Live metrics are sometimes also called concurrent metrics in your traffic dashboard.
data pointIn the graph above, the green line is the number of data points allowed per second or the data point rate limit. In this example it is set at 400,000, allowing the user to send 400,000 data points a second.
The orange line is the total number of data points per second received associated with the account.
The above graph can give you visual insights into recent metrics being created and deleted. This can be useful for tracking spikes in traffic, and monitoring any configured expiry rules.
TL;DR - As a prevention measure against accidents and malice.
thatIt’s possible for a user to run a script that accidentally (or deliberately) updates millions of metrics a second. Sensible limits on what data we process ensure that one customer cannot affect the quality of service for others. Check out this article for more details on why these limits are put in place.
Generally, we want customers to be able to send data at a high rate and we can monitor and increase any limits as necessary.
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