Uptime visualisation in percentage

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Hi Folks,

currently we visualize the up-time for a device with a constantly increasing graph while most OPS people are keen on five 9’s for 99.999 % up-time.

I think it would beneficial to have a knob where we can switch the graph to show up-time in percentage as flat line at 100% for 100% availability.
Likewise I would like to see a dashboard banner option for showing the numeric average number in bold printed letters of all my devices I am monitoring.

Thanks,
Wolfgang

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I actually like that idea a lot!
All monitoring solutions I have used so far had graphs like LibreNMS is using now and it never really made sense to me, but having a percent graph or just a number seems like a much better idea from my point of view.

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These aren’t going to be easy to do. we don’t store historical up / down events that would allow us to create an availability value.

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Hi Laf,
I guess there is an easy solution to this :wink:
We just assume 100% uptime is the normal and should be a flat line instead of a constantly increasing graph. Then we just visualize the deviation from normal as a drop to zero. What I am thinking about is the uptime as an expression of 9’s per year or better say we just show the downtime.

See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_availability under Percentage calculation.
I guess there is a point if we should visualize:

  • Downtime per year
  • Downtime per month
  • Downtime per week
  • Downtime per day
    but my preference would be “Downtime per year”

Every operator is proud of his “Nines” so maybe we can build an aggregate for the dashboard as well?

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But to be able to calculate any number of 9’s you need to store when and for how long a device is down.

If you don’t, it’s just a binary up / down which we already store.

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Hi Laf
It would be very useful to have this feature, and also the possibility of creating reports of availability, use, etc.
What do you think?

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