[Buildbot-devel] Metrics

[Daniel Eggert]

On Jun 17, 2008, at 6:53 PM, Charles Lepple wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 6:45 PM, Daniel Eggert <deggert at apple.com>  
> wrote:
>> Can I use buildbot to track metrics (e.g. size of my binary, test  
>> case
>> execution time)?
>>
>> How would I go about doing that?
>
> I haven't checked to see how different 0.7.7 is in this department,
> but buildbot tracks bytes of output and step execution time without
> any modification.
>
> My problem with 0.7.6 was that the storage for these metrics wasn't
> persistent, so every time I reconfigured the master, it would lose its
> execution time estimate.
>
> However, since the master.cfg is a Python script, and since you can
> import your own modules that extend Buildbot steps, it isn't too hard
> to capture metrics as they are generated, and send them to an external
> database (which could be as simple as appending to a CSV file).
>
> -- 
> - Charles Lepple

I thought buildbot had its own database for metrics. Or is there just  
the one used for ETA estimates?

/Daniel