I’m still in Las Vegas coaching 13 year olds at the Red Rock Rave. Hopefully things are going well, though day 3 is often tough. It’s been a long weekend and players are tired (and coaches).
I’ll be surviving today and then having a quiet night with my wife before returning tomorrow. I’ll see you Wednesday, but until then, you can read A Great Case for Powershell. Let me know how that has held up in the age of AI, 8 years later.
We have multiple teams (8) working on Redgate Monitor. Some work on the Standard Edition, a few on the Enterprise Edition, and others handling core work, like the Linux/PostgreSQL option.
We also have designers, and they regularly research how well the product works for customers, what is difficult, and they propose changes. One of them was recently release. We have a new analysis page in Redgate Monitor and this post looks at the changes.
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If you go to monitor.red-gate.com, you can see this at: https://monitor.red-gate.com/Analysis. This shows the new analysis graph, which is easier to see and takes up the entire screen.
If you haven’t used this, I’ve added metrics below this for certain servers. You can see in the legend that I’m looking at CPU time along with batch requests for both sides of my cluster. I can compare these to see if the number of batches is impacting CPU. A correlation I might use to research how a workload affects my system.
If I put my cursor over the graph, I can get info on the metric, the current time and the value/min/mean/max. These values are for the time period.
If I change my time period, I see the values change for the stats.
Below this, for the metrics, it’s a little cleaner as well. The interface hasn’t changed a lot, but it’s a little larger and spread out. I can see that I pick a metric for a cluster, and then for a machine. This is the same.
What has changed is the “add a metric” is now at the top on the side. If I click this, I get a new set of metrics to pick below this. Note the “same as above” for the cluster, which is very handy. I can also type in the box to search.
At the right, the explanation of the metrics and statistics are still on the far right.
This makes an interesting experience that works smoother to ensure that
If you don’t like this, there’s a link in the upper right to switch back.
Clicking this loses my metrics, but if I add them back, you can see the old view. It’s a little less appealing to me. The other thing I hated is that the “add a metric” is below the list shown below, which is annoying. I often scroll down to find it.
I also have statistics which only show one of the metrics (first one?) and not both. I’m also missing stats of the average.
This is a small change, but a nice one, IMHO. The ease with which the UX is designed can make a big difference to how users can interact with the data. This is a small one, but one that I really appreciated.
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Video of this post below.
I’m off to Las Vegas for a volleyball tournament today. Fingers crossed we have a good weekend, and the team has a good experience. These tournaments can be stressful and tough with teams from all over the country.
They can also be exciting when we win a few matches.
While I’m gone, you get to re-read A Double Failure.
Only a little break for me. I’m actually heading to Las Vegas today for the Red Rock Rave volleyball tournament with a team of 13 year olds. We’ve been pushing them at practice for a few weeks, so hopefully they’re ready to compete and we break into the top half tomorrow.
That’s usually our goal as the teams I coach aren’t often the top athletes in Colorado. If we finish 1st or 2nd in our pool tomorrow, then we’ll be in the top half for Sunday and Monday. We did this at Crossroads in Jan and the RMR Showdown in Feb. The second day can get rough, but we’re learning and improving each time.
The tournament finished Monday and my wife and I are staying until Tues to get a little break. During tournament days, we’re very busy and it’s real work. We don’t get a lot of down time, and we are constantly searching for ways we can coach better and help the team improve. Plus the 15 year olds from our club are going and we coached 3 of those girls at 13, so we’ll stick around and watch them after we’re done playing.
It’s great to get away from technology and do something in the real world. I always like those moments when I get away from computers, and I’m looking forward to the break.
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