5 minute polling interval question

agoktas

Hello everyone!

When a poll occurs every 5 minutes (300 seconds) by SW Orion agent on the Windows VM (Win 2012 R2), does this take the average stats (CPU, Memory, Network, etc.) of the previous 299 seconds (approximately) and send this to the Orion server? 

I was told by someone that the moment the polling occurs, it only captures the metrics at that moment - which sounds incorrect to me because why ignore the previous 299 seconds and only log the 1 second the poll occurs? What if the CPU was pegged at 100% for 299 seconds and then dropped to 1% at the 300th second when the poll occurred; that would mean that it would have only seen the 1% CPU utilization?  I wouldn't think so.

Please enlighten me on how this works exactly and exactly what is captured during the poll. 

Thanks!

adatole

The short answer is "it depends".

The medium answer is:

WHen you pull stats every 5 min, you are getting the stats at that moment. Those stats are then averaged when we do summarization (minute-ly stats to hourly every week, hourly to daily every month, etc)

However, in each specific case, you need to have a sense of what stats we're pulling. Ping is ping at that moment. CPU is the 15-min average (unless you change it), so you're getting the system's averaging of 15 min CPU stats, which is captured as the CPU stat for that point-in-time.