topic Re: Performance Manager vs. Harvest+Graphite+Grafana in Active IQ Unified Manager Discussions

Performance Manager vs. Harvest+Graphite+Grafana

CLOUDMINER — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 18:12:36 GMT

What do I gain or lose in using OnCommand Performance Manger vs. Harvest+Graphite+Grafana to view historical data and do performance troubleshooting?

Re: Performance Manager vs. Harvest+Graphite+Grafana

J_curl — Mon, 21 Nov 2016 17:45:05 GMT

Use them both for best results. Harvest will query metrics directly from your controllers, but can also get many other metrics from OCPM. Capacity metrics I think are only available when Harvest queries OCPM.

We use both, and frankly I find I much favor Harvest/Grafana. Takes a little work to get it going, but that looks much easier with 1.3 release.

Re: Performance Manager vs. Harvest+Graphite+Grafana

moep — Fri, 25 Nov 2016 08:29:12 GMT

OPM has only some basic counters, it lacks the details.

Here is an comparison overview: https://twitter.com/dutchiechris/status/652432912596373505

Re: Performance Manager vs. Harvest+Graphite+Grafana

SALBISTON — Fri, 25 Nov 2016 17:02:48 GMT

Hi, can you provide an alternate link (or the actual content) to the OPM/Harvest comparison? My company blocks Twitter...

Re: Performance Manager vs. Harvest+Graphite+Grafana

moep — Mon, 28 Nov 2016 13:43:45 GMT

Here is the picture from the twitter post.

Re: Performance Manager vs. Harvest+Graphite+Grafana

CLOUDMINER — Tue, 29 Nov 2016 19:32:26 GMT

Much appreciated - thanks again.

Re: Performance Manager vs. Harvest+Graphite+Grafana

J_curl — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 15:35:31 GMT

That chart is for a really old version. OCPM is at version 7.0 (and 7.1RC) and is much improved over 2.x. That said, I still wouldn;t rely on it alone, without Harvest.