On 2013-07-29 18:40, Roland Schwingel wrote:
Dear Adam Armstrong,
Second: I just wanted to try to make a little suggestion on how to maybe improve observium. Nothing more. Especially when you rush a little bit with the mouse over the graphs you have to think about a little bit what is shown on the y-axis. Percentage,Thruput (Kbit/s KByte/s,MBit/s,Mbyte/s,load factors, error rates etc.). And so I thought it might be easier - especially to new users, or when you copy out images for presentation reasons - if there would be an option to also display a label alongside the y-axis - which I still feel would be better. You are getting faster what you are seeing.
We made a design decision a long, long time ago that favours more space for graphs over including legends. For the same reason we don't include graph headers and try to condense the legends as much as possible.
If we included an axis label we'd have to shrink the graphical area of the graph to fit on the 4-graph row, giving even less data to the user. Not to mention the fact that the information already exists, directly beneath where a label would go, as the first part of the first line of the legend. Did you actually read the graph before you complained?
http://alpha.memetic.org/~adama/snaps/u0by7z69dd.png
This decision was made long ago, and we will indeed get irritated at people who question basic design aspects without actually thinking about whether what they are complaining about makes any sense at all.
p.s.
fuck cacti.
Maybe because I have mentioned cacti you have insulted me. It did not wanted to offend you by any means. Presently I am running an old cacti and a brand new observium installation side by side and I am comparing them. One thing I noticed (where the "other" products behaves IMHO a bit better) was the label thing. You should not feel being insulted by just reading names of competing products.
I suppose you want us to put AVERAGE:, MAXIMUM: or MINIMUM: in front of every average number to, right, because otherwise how could you possibly ever know that the number is an average without guessing?
adam.