hourglass
v0.0.1
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Client-side performance monitoring and aggregation.
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#hourglass
hourglass is a front end JavaScript performance monitoring tool. It gives you
a time
and timeEnd
api for measuring how long things take, similar to the
Chrome console API. It aggregates these times and POSTs them to a server, where
you make magic happen with them.
AN EXAMPLE
var hourglass = new Hourglass({
url: 'http://where.to.send.metrics.example.com'
aggregationInterval: 10000
})
function someLongRunningThing() {
hourglass.time('longRunningThing')
someAsyncOperation(function() {
hourglass.timeEnd('longRunningThing')
})
}
Now every 10 seconds, hourglass will POST any metrics that were timeEnd
ed
to the url.
Metric Format
They get POSTed as JSON with this format:
{
"timestamp": 123455434, // timestamp the metrics were posted
"metrics": {
"metricName": [10, 20, 500, 10], // arrays of times in millesecond between `time` and `timeEnd`.
"metricName2": [12312, 1234, 5959]
}
}
API
new Hourglass(opts)
Create a new instance of Hourglass. opts
is a hash of options
url
- the URL to POST metrics to. This is the only required option. The constructor will throw an error if you don't provide aurl
.aggregationInterval
- the number of milliseconds to wait between POSTing metrics tourl
. Defaults to 60000verbose
- if true, debug info will be printed to the console.
Example
var hourglass = new Hourglass({url: 'http://my.server.endpoint.example.com/stats'})
hourglass.time(metricName)
Record a start time for a metric. If start
is called multiple times
with the same metricName
, the metrics will be resolved in FIFO order.
metricName
String the name of the metric to record a start time for.
Example
hourglass.time('renderHomePage')
someFunctionToRenderHomePage(function() {
hourglass.timeEnd('renderHomePage')
})
hourglass.timeEnd(metricName)
Finish recording a time for a metric. It will be sent off with the next aggregation cycle.
metricName
String name of the metric to resolve.
Example
hourglass.time('renderHomePage')
someFunctionToRenderHomePage(function() {
hourglass.timeEnd('renderHomePage')
})
hourglass.startAggregation()
Start the aggregation setInterval. This is called automatically by the constructor, but if you want to manually start and stop aggregation, here it is.
hourglass.pauseAggregation()
Stop sending metrics to the server.
FAQ
Will this work on IE <= 8?
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How do I consume these on the server?
I am working on a project to intergrate with Graphite and statsd, but for now it is up to you to do something useful with this data.