I’m new to Deadline and my role is primarily getting statistics from it for review. My current task is to get the total number of submitted jobs and their users within a specific time period.
Using the Completed Job Stats report only gives me information on jobs that have completed - it doesn’t include failed or suspended/other statuses, so is of limited value to me. Using filters I can get the Main Stats panel to display the jobs I want but I can’t seem to find a way to generate a report/export stats from that panel.
Am I missing something? Is there not a way to generate a report on all submitted jobs within a specified time period through Deadline Monitor? Or export statistics outside of the Farm Report presets?
https://docs.thinkboxsoftware.com/products/deadline/10.0/1_User%20Manual/manual/statistics.html
I think you can query the database directly?
There was also a post on using Zabbix but I’ve never got this working
https://www.awsthinkbox.com/zabbix-monitoring
@nmorgan, if you can give me a better idea of what information your after, followed by what information you store one your jobs , i can give you a pretty good idea of how to go about this.
what can make life a lot simpler, is to bake information into the job extra info values, this then allows you to store / query data directly from the deadline data base.
While the original system i have is cron jobs parsing / sorting the info and storing it in a separate mongodb, then displaying it with the google charts api, moving forward, collecting the data and pushing it to influxdb , with a grafana interface is definatly the way to go.
As for the data set your actually after, you could do this in 1 query or 2, where you ask the jobs collection in the mongodb for all jobs that have completed between x and y.
once you have this information, and based on what meta data you have stored in the jobs, you can then collect all the jobs by a particular user, jobtype etc.
Figuring out how to present the data in a graph , like a line chart, usually allows management to process the information much quicker that a listing / spread sheet of the same data.
If your curious about this workflow for stats collection, im more than happy to share / help.
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