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New tool to save HTTP stats

· 4 min read
Creator of Spider

Spider may be very useful to extract system statistics.
But its small retention time (due to high data volume) limits the usage you may do with these stats.

This new tool extracts HTTP statistics from Spider captured data and save them into another index with longer retention time.

Location extraction

· One min read

I got today an idea from Enzo: add a link next to the Location header in the HTTP details to allow loading the linked resource from the HTTP response.

As I liked the idea, I did it straight :)

From the official RFC, the location may be absolute or relative, so Spider manages both:

  • Either a direct link to the absolute URI
  • Or a link built from the 'host' header, the 'x-forwarded-proto' if present, and the relative 'location' header.

Now the location is then available in the HTTP global tab. Thanks you Enzo!

Progressive loading of Map

· One min read

Following the work and good results on Timeline, the same progressive loading has been applied for the network map.

Although more complex to do, having done the timeline before made it quite quick to do (<10h).

Test have proven it working to display two full days of data for all monitored platforms on Streetsmart. An aggregation over 100GB of data.

I wouldn't say it was fast though, I stopped it before the end as there was nodes all over the place ;-)

Check it out! Fireworks!