Re: [Hawkular-dev] Tag concept in metrics and alerts

On Jun 24, 2015, at 7:51 AM, Gary Brown <gbrown(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: Hi John Thanks for the clarification - that fits with how I need to use metrics. So for example, I may have btm_id=<some unique id for the transaction instance>, and possibly service_type=<service associated with the metric>, operation=<op name> - so assume they would all be ok? Regards Gary ----- Original Message ----- > Originally tags were implemented just as a label, not a key/value pair. I saw > that a number of other time series dbs use key/value pairs and decided to > make the change. It can also produce more efficient queries. For example, > filtering against N labels would require querying N partitions (in the > original schema). Querying against one tag name with N different values > however would only require querying 1 partition. > >> On Jun 24, 2015, at 6:25 AM, Michael Burman <miburman(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I don't agree with changing the terms. Many of metrics competing products >> (such as InfluxDB / OpenTSDB) use the same terminology, so it is easier >> for customers to understand the differences and similarities between >> products. Using different terminology was one of the difficulties in RHQ >> (like noted in the F2F meeting) and I don't think we should repeat the >> same mistake. >> >> - Micke >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Gary Brown" <gbrown(a)redhat.com&gt; >> To: "Discussions around Hawkular development" >> <hawkular-dev(a)lists.jboss.org&gt; >> Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2015 11:45:56 AM >> Subject: [Hawkular-dev] Tag concept in metrics and alerts >> >> Hi >> >> Both metrics and alerts use the term 'tag' - however metrics use a >> name/value pair for a tag, and alerts uses it as a label. Wondering >> whether we need consistency? >> >> When I hear the term tag, I usually envisage a label - e.g. as in git. So >> wondering whether it would be clearer for metrics to rename tags to >> properties? >> >> Possibly metrics needs the concept of a tag/label as well? >> >> Regards >> Gary >> _______________________________________________ >> hawkular-dev mailing list >> hawkular-dev(a)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 > > > _______________________________________________ > hawkular-dev mailing list > hawkular-dev(a)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