I recently came across the Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) project from SGI (http://oss.sgi.com/projects/pcp/). It appears to have a very nice standardized API and namespace for collecting and exposing many different performance metrics from a system. Has anyone else seen it? and is anyone possibly working on making ZABBIX a consumer for PCP metrics?
One of the features that I am particularly interested in about PCP is that it exposes many details about processes running on the system (how much memory they consume, time spent running user code/system code, number of swapped pages, etc.). I would like to see ZABBIX visualize this in some way, but I don't know how, since it seems that ZABBIX only has the ability to graph a single variable. I'd like some sort of graph that shows a timeline (somehow) of the currently running processes and different utilization characteristics for each process (sort of like graphing 'top', if that helps).
One of the features that I am particularly interested in about PCP is that it exposes many details about processes running on the system (how much memory they consume, time spent running user code/system code, number of swapped pages, etc.). I would like to see ZABBIX visualize this in some way, but I don't know how, since it seems that ZABBIX only has the ability to graph a single variable. I'd like some sort of graph that shows a timeline (somehow) of the currently running processes and different utilization characteristics for each process (sort of like graphing 'top', if that helps).