metrics used in Grafana

[Nirmala Shenoy]

hello

I am collecting performance metrics and displaying using Grafana. the traffic from a node interface is displayed as packets/sec (in/out). In some interfaces the y axis shows mps. What does mps stand for? On a google search mps stands for million packets per second. But at an idling node I cannot expect that much traffic.

I have looked up documentation on Grafana – but unable to get interpretation for several variables that are being displayed on the dashboard.

any pointers to documents that can help?

 

 

[Charles Carpenter]

Those use the SI prefixes see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix

So lower case m would be milli or 0.001 or 1/1000 of a packet.

Capital M would be mega or 1,000,000 or a million packet

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