On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 10:14 AM, Heiko W.Rupp <hrupp@redhat.com> wrote:

On 18 Apr 2017, at 0:10, Benjamin Heiskell wrote:

> cross-metric
> mathematics like sums, division, and moving averages (i.e.,

As I wrote in my post, the the blog post in [1] is a great motivator
for such a language.

> What do you all think?

I like that :-)

And as others have said already, it is not enough to just use
the aggregations over tags, but it should allow for more complete
mathematical operations.

[1] https://www.circonus.com/2016/06/percentages-arent-people/

This post is great.

I think that it is good to mention that Hawkular offers support for Nelson Rules [2][3] which provide additional techniques of process control to detect scenarios as described in the post.

Modeling is a very interesting and open topic, so offering a rich set of tooling will help users to model better their business scenarios.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_rules

[3] http://www.hawkular.org/docs/rest/rest-alerts.html#NelsonCondition