http_perf return ms or s ?

[ghislain]

Hi,

I have http-perf monitoring on several hosts.

I can ping them in 7-8 ms, the http_perf return 0.4 ms, this seems strange to me that the ping is so slow compare to the http query as the computer monitored is on the internet but not on the same provider than the zabbix server.

Seems to me that the http-perf items does not return ms as stated in the doc but some other things, seconds perhaps ? Anyone knows ?

regards,
Ghislain.

[selin]

Ping Times

Try multiplying the value from icmppingsec by 1,000. It seems to return the correct ms value.

[ghislain]

perhaps this is in the time mesured that is the problem.

Does it take the time for complete run trip , or does zabbix count only the time between the socket opening on the distant server and the "hello there" reply of the web server ? in this case it could explain why the values are so low. This would be because zabbix speak only of the http response time and strip the network one (who is not a bad idea at all).

unfortunately i cannot read the C code so i cannot confirm this