You are viewing a plain text version of this content. The canonical link for it is here.

Posted to dev@mesos.apache.org by "Vinod Kone (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org> on 2014/01/29 20:02:08 UTC

[jira] [Created] (MESOS-955) Unify stats naming scheme

Vinod Kone created MESOS-955:
--------------------------------

             Summary: Unify stats naming scheme
                 Key: MESOS-955
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MESOS-955
             Project: Mesos
          Issue Type: Improvement
            Reporter: Vinod Kone
             Fix For: 0.18.0


The stats that we expose do not *explicitly* distinguish between counters (monotonically increasing over time) and gauges (fluctuating over time). It is left to the users to interpret them based on the stat name itself, which is prone to errors/confusion.

One option is to add a "total_" prefix (or "_total" suffix) to counters and/or "gauge_" prefix ("_gauge" suffix) to gauges. A tricky part here is that we already expose some cgroup stats with "total_" prefix but they fluctuate over time (i.e., gauges).

It would be nice to come up with a unifying naming scheme for stats. Since name/schema changes have far reaching consequence it would be great to have a discussion around this.



--
This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA
(v6.1.5#6160)