Deadline Statistics in Postgres with normalized render time

Deadline
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Hi,

We’re looking into gathering statistics from Deadline into a postgres database We’ve got this setup and working fine, I’m just wondering if there’s an easy way to add normalized render times to information it gathers? This would be incredibly useful to more accurately calculate usage and project future render times.

Cheers

Nick

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Hi Nick,

There isn’t a way to change the info that’s stored in the database. We are rewriting our statistics gathering for 6.0, so we could probably look at this for Deadline 6. We’ve logged it as a feature request.

Cheers,

  • Ryan
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Hi Ryan,

I had a feeling from the documentation that this would be the case. I wonder if you’re looking at it anyway whether you’ll be adding options to control the kind of information that it collects? An ini file of some sort maybe?

Anyway we look forward to upcoming release of 6.0, new GUI certainly looks nice.

Nick

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We weren’t planning on doing this, and since our goal for 6.0 is to be as functionally equivalent with v5 as possible, it’s unlikely we’ll change how we do this in the near term. That being said, we should just be storing everything you could normally get with a completed job, and the missing normalized times was definitely an oversight. If there is anything else you would like to see, let us know and we’ll see if we can store it too.

Cheers,

  • Ryan
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It’s not really that important to have the extra control, it’s pretty comprehensive what’s being stored already. We are only just starting to look into this at the moment and I think the normalised time is the only thing that i can see that’s missing but I’ll not really know until we start getting into it.

Nick

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Hi,

We’ve just installed Deadline 5.2.0.49424, I’ve read the release notes and it doesn’t mention the normalized render time being stored in the database. I wondered if this has gone in now or if it’s coming in Deadline 6? I only ask because we’re coming to the end of a TV series and I want to be able to analyse the times it takes to render each episode, both to see how render changes affect the times and to be able to better project renderfarm needs on future projects. Is this something that could be applied as a fix if it’s not in 5.2?

Cheers

Nick

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Hey Nick,

This was always on the roapmap for 6.0 (and it still is). Unfortunately, there are no plans to backport it into 5.2 because 5.2.0.49424 was the last scheduled release for the 5.x cycle.

Cheers,

  • Ryan
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Hi,

We’ve moved on a bit further with this now. Will it be possible to add in the ExtraInfo fields to the statistics in Deadline 6? We tend to use these fields to handle Project, Shotcode, Task etc and it would be incredibly useful to be able to access these from the statistics!

Nick

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Hey Nick,

I’ll put this on the wish list for 6.0. Should be pretty straightforward.

Cheers,

  • Ryan
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Thanks Ryan,

This’ll be very useful for tracking renders future projects.

Nick