[Buildbot] #2966: New web plugin idea: an health indicator

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#2966: New web plugin idea: an health indicator
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Reporter:  Ben           |       Owner:
    Type:  project-idea  |      Status:  new
Priority:  major         |   Milestone:  0.9.+
 Version:                |  Resolution:
Keywords:  web           |
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Comment (by tardyp):

 on IRC, sa2ajj talked about http://graphite.readthedocs.org/

 He told us, he actually uses it at work, and has integration working with
 eigth.

 Looking at the documentation, the first reaction is how to integrate this
 with multimaster, as graphite has its own db called whisper.
 I haven't look too much deeply, but I think this is still feasible as a
 external tool. Probably this would be much cheaper than making our own
 metrics system inside buildbot.

 An external graphite server could be setup, and watch for the (TBD) mq
 server. As there are messages for nearly every kind of activity that
 happens in buildbot, this is a good mean of making solid analysis of what
 is going on. Of course, this solution would not be fully integrated, as
 probably the UI would be external, but anyway, I think this is a possible
 cheap path.

 @sa2ajj do you think it is possible? How would you estimate the cost of
 integration?

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