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Is there a way to average measures obtained from a custom sensor for a defined interval of time?

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I created a sensor that calculates the APDEX index of a web page. To refine the result, I would like to apply a formula to average the last 5 hours of data obtained. How could I get that done? Thanks a lot to anyone who can help me with that.

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Created on Mar 17, 2010 1:55:44 PM

Last change on Mar 18, 2010 10:08:26 AM by Daniel Zobel [Product Manager]



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Store your data in a file on disk

Every time the sensor runs, a new instance of your app is launched so you cannot use local variables in your app to hold the data of previous runs.

You could however use a (xml) file on disk to hold the results of previous runs and have your sensor return the average value of these results.

The users temp folder would be a good place to write the xml file to.

Created on Mar 17, 2010 7:14:16 PM



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You could most likely do so using Sensor Factory sensors.

Please have a look at the respective chapter of the user manual.

Created on Mar 17, 2010 4:32:45 PM by Patrick Hutter [Paessler Support] (7,225) ●3 ●3



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Store your data in a file on disk

Every time the sensor runs, a new instance of your app is launched so you cannot use local variables in your app to hold the data of previous runs.

You could however use a (xml) file on disk to hold the results of previous runs and have your sensor return the average value of these results.

The users temp folder would be a good place to write the xml file to.

Created on Mar 17, 2010 7:14:16 PM




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