95th percentile line

[MHammett]

I see a few requests here and there over the past 10 years for a 95th percentile line. Has this not made it yet?

[Box293]

Do you mean in your graphs? If so, if you are using PNP4Nagios then you could calculate this in PNP templates.

Please provide some use case examples.

[MHammett]

Do you mean in your graphs? If so, if you are using PNP4Nagios then you could calculate this in PNP templates.

Please provide some use case examples.

PNP4Nagios doesn't do a very good job of explaining what it is and how it fits in the big picture.

[jolson]

Can you reference a few of the forum posts you're talking about? It would help us better understand how to assist you.

[MHammett]

Here's an inquiry from 2006, but the response wasn't what the OP was asking about: https://www.mail-archive.com/nagios-use ... 05071.html
Here's one from 2013, but was referring to Nagios XI: support.nagios.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=8848

95th percentile is where you throw out the top 5% of samples and draw a line wherever that leaves you. That's how most dedicated Internet services are sold. You commit to paying for 300 megabit on a 1 gigabit link. As long as you don't go above 300 megabit for ~18 hours a month, you're in the clear. However, if that top 5% is thrown out and you're left at 347 megabit, you have to pay extra for that additional 47 megabit consumed.

Examples:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burstable_billing
http://blog.atlanticmetro.net/2008/09/0 ... e-billing/
https://www.vaultnetworks.com/resources ... explained/

[tmcdonald]

In Core, the way to go would be to follow the XI post since that uses PNP4Nagios just like Core would. You would need to modify the templates. Otherwise if you want this handled by Core proper you can open a feature request for it on our Core GitHub page: https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore

In XI, we now use Highcharts for graphing and that might be something we could implement.