[users at bb.net] Gathering and displaying build time statistics on buildbot?

[Dan Kegel]

Oh, also, I guess there's http://trac.buildbot.net/wiki/BuildbotJson
which looks easy to try, I may start with that.

On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 9:55 AM, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
> Hi!  I see that Buildbot has metrics and statistics things:
> http://docs.buildbot.net/latest/manual/cfg-global.html#metrics-options
> http://docs.buildbot.net/latest/manual/cfg-global.html#statistics-service
> but there seems to be no user-story-oriented guide about how to use them
> to e.g. measure how long a particular builder (or all builders) takes
> and display a histogram showing its median and 90th percentile durations.
>
> The closest I found was
> https://github.com/buildbot/buildbot/pull/1725
> https://gist.github.com/prasoon2211/cbe93436acc436be61c9
> http://trac.buildbot.net/ticket/2461
> http://trac.buildbot.net/ticket/3350
>
> What is the state of the art here on branch eight?  (I'm at the tip of
> eight now.  Could move to nine if it makes this easier.)