[atlas] Replacing "ping RRDs" with "zoomable ping graphs"

Dear All,

We'd like to let you know that as described in the mail below, we stopped
the generation of the "built-in ping RRDs" (though a bit later than projected).

The RRDs that visualise UDM ping measurements will be decommissioned next;
the seismograph is provided as a replacement visualisation tool.

Regards,
Robert Kisteleki


On 2013.09.25. 13:12, Robert Kisteleki wrote:
> 
> Dear RIPE Atlas users,
> 
> As you may have read in the recent RIPE Labs article
> (https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/seismograph-and-other-new-ripe-atlas-features),
> we've replaced the old style, RRD based visualisation for built-in ping
> measurements with client side, zoomable graphs. Since then we've also
> changed the graphs that represent the probe's bandwidth usage.
> 
> The new graphs have the benefit that they retain all details, even for
> longer time intervals. (These details were lost in the RRD based graphs over
> time.) Other reasons why we changed include that generating the RRD graphs
> did not scale well with the increasing number of RIPE Atlas probes, and
> making them required us to maintain a large set of backend servers, each
> being a single point of failure.
> 
> With the new approach you still have visualisations for this information,
> with more details and interactivity (though it does require running
> JavaScript on the client side).
> 
> We'll change the remaining RRDs to this new model as well in the coming
> period, and stop generating the RRD based images altogether. We expect to
> stop with the "built-in pings" and the probe traffic RRDs first, likely in
> the second week of October.
> 
> If you would like to embed these new style visualisations into your pages
> (maybe because you used the RRD graphs before), then you'll have to embed a
> RIPEstat widget; see
> https://stat.ripe.net/widgets/demo/atlas_probe_widgets.html for details.
> 
> Regards,
> Robert Kisteleki
> for the RIPE Atlas team
> 
> 
>