Grafana, Graphite and maxDataPoints confusion for totals
The title is a little wordy, but I hope you get the gist. I just spent 10 minutes staring at some data on a Grafana dashboard, comparing it with some other data, and finding the numbers didn’t add up. Here is the story in case it catches you out. The dashboard The dashboard in question…
The Wikimedia Server Admin Logs
The Wikimedia Server Admin Log or SAL for short is a timestamped log of actions performed on the Wikimedia cluster by users such as roots and deployers. The log is stored on the WikiTech Wikimedia project and can be found at the following URL: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Server_Admin_Log An example entry in the log could be: 09:04 addshore: addshore@terbium:~$…
WMDE: CI, Deploys & Config changes intro
This is an internal WMDE presentation made to introduce people to the land of Wikimedia CI, MediaWiki deployment and config changes. This briefly covers: Jenkins & Zuul CI Config Beta Cluster SWAT The MediaWiki train Monitoring mediawiki-config The Docker & Kubernetes future?
WMDE: Event Logging intro
This is an internal WMDE presentation made to introduce people to Event Logging. MediaWiki extension: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EventLogging Guide: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EventLogging/Guide
WMDE: Wikibase Docker intro
This is an internal WMDE presentation made to introduce people to Docker and the Wikibase docker images already introduced in this post.
WMDE: Metrics & Data Gatherings
Below you will find an internal WMDE presentation covering the general area of WMDE Metric & Data Gatherings from 2016. This presentation follows on from the initial introduction to engineering analytics activities. The presentation skims through: WMDE Grafana dashboards The Wikimedia Analytics landscape Grafana & graphite Hadoop, Kafka, Hive & Oozie EventLogging, Mysql replicas &…
WMDE: Engineering Analytics Activities
This is an internal WMDE presentation given at the start of “metric driven development” for the WMDE & Wikidata dev teams. The presentation is pretty bare bones but it provides a general overview of the plan and links to the current state of things. The main area of interest from the presentation is the…