The way to export/import benchmark results

[eckucukoglu]

Hi,

Regarding presenting the benchmark results, Is there a way to import and export the benchmark results for later viewings?

My aim to ask that is almost same with #135, however I guess developing report functionality could be future work. Just exporting results (database dumb?, file storing, ...) would work for me right now. Since I do not know the internal implementation details, I could not handle that.

Thank you.

[parsifal-47]

Hi, thanks for asking, it is possible from dashboard and cli

from dashboard:

from cli:

mzbench [--host=<host>] [--no_cert_check] data [(--target=<name>...)] [--format=(csv|json)] <bench_id>

please let me know if you have questions, thank you!

[eckucukoglu]

Nice, it is good to have data report as a file. Do we have a chance to import the downloaded data files to mzbench, to see graphs?

Thank you.

[parsifal-47]

That's interesting idea, currently, we don't have any charts that are separated from benchmarks, all charts are related to some execution, I see how we could implement import/export of the entire benchmarks but importing a chart should somehow change entity relations

what is your idea about it? do you want to see separated list of charts or you see import as a replacement for some of the existing charts inside a benchmark?

[eckucukoglu]

No, not as a replacement. Idea behind my request is that the charts (with scenario details) are valuable for me. I do not want to lose them, because I will compare different broker solutions with different specs. So, I'm expecting from a complete export/import functionality to recover every benchmarks with its full content (scenarios, names, tags, etc...)

[parsifal-47]

we had the same idea, but we just kept all benchmarks and added backups to make sure nothing is lost, but we had stateful server. As far as I understand, in your case server is deployed on demand

[eckucukoglu]

How did you keep all benchmarks? Could you restore them later? Yes, my mzbench server is deployed on-demand.

Thank you.

[parsifal-47]

All benchmarks are located in bench_data_dir set with config, by default it is ~/.local/share/mzbench_api/data, if you just copy this folder, you'll have all the data

[eckucukoglu]

This is exactly what I need. Thank you very much.