Re: [Hawkular-dev] Response time ?

I like percentiles. Here is a good article that explains why percentiles are effective and why they should be used for baselining. http://apmblog.dynatrace.com/2012/11/14/why-averages-suck-and-percentiles... > On Feb 19, 2015, at 9:20 AM, Thomas Heute <theute(a)redhat.com > <mailto:theute@redhat.com>> wrote: > > > What is a useful representation of a response time over a period of time ? > > - Average of all the samples ? *2.22s* > - 90/95/99 percentile ? 99% of your requests took less than *2.45s* > - Percentage of valid samples ? *94%* of your requests took less > than your 3s acceptable time. > - Apdex ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apdex > > Anything else ? (This is for a quick overview of the health of a system). > > Thomas > > _______________________________________________ > hawkular-dev mailing list > hawkular-dev(a)lists.jboss.org <mailto:hawkular-dev@lists.jboss.org> > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hawkular-dev _______________________________________________ hawkular-dev mailing list hawkular-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hawkular-dev