[DESIGN] NEST Monitoring Interface Functionality

[marcelkrueger]

List of NEST & Insite properties/metrics that would be useful to query via Insite:

• [ ] Ringbuffer of population rates
• [ ] memory usage
• [ ] CPU usage
• [ ] power usage
• [ ] spikes per process (current load of communication structure)
• [ ] pyNest timers (duration last communication step, ...)

[jougs]

Documentation for available built-in timers in NEST is available here: https://nest-simulator.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guides/built-in_timers.html