[Request]: Updated Disk Metrics in Host List

[roshan-elastic]

Description

We are updating the disk metrics to show 'max' instead of 'avg' because the average metric is *useless for most users. We should update the host disk documentation to reflect this...I'm not sure on the best approach.

*Users care if a partition on a disk is going to run out - we've been reporting an 'average' across all partitions - this disguises when a particular partition is running out. 'Max' should be a good indication of whether 'any' partition is going to run out of space

Current implementation

Changing to...
See issue

Note : In the future, we'd like to offer the user the ability to simply toggle between max, avg, p95 etc across certain metrics. This might impact the way we document metrics? i.e. there could be single metrics with 'variants' that users can swap between. Just FYI

Resources

See issue (not released yet)

Which documentation set does this change impact?

Stateful and Serverless

Feature differences

Same on stateful and serverless

What release is this request related to?

N/A

Collaboration model

The documentation team

Point of contact.

Main contact: @roshan-elastic

Stakeholders: @jennypavlova

[dedemorton]

@roshan-elastic Looking at the UI, I'm wondering if some of the other metrics described on this page have changed. Are we documenting metrics that no longer appear in the UI? Are we using the correct labels in the docs?

It's been awhile since I've looked at the Hosts UI (I'm working in a different area now), but I suspect there are some UI changes that never made it into the docs.

[roshan-elastic]

Hey @dedemorton, good question. Aside from this request, everything should be up-to-date, I don't think we've changed anything in the UI since we centralised the host metric definitions .

Worth checking over though.