Experimental Features
Everything on this page is work-in-progress towards some future release. Interested in picking up any of these features and developing them further?
Multi-series Metrics
Vanity 1.4 introduces some changes to the API to allow support for multi-series metrics. The intent is to allow more data to be captured and displayed using less metrics (i.e. charts).
First change to the track!
method, which now accepts a single value, array of values, or hash. Since incrementing the metric by one is quite common, this is still the default behavior when calling track!
with no arguments.
Next proposed change would allow the metric to define multiple columns. Those can be addressed by name or index, for example:
metric :purchase do columns :count, :total end metric(:purchase).track!(p.items.length. p.total) metric(:purchase).track!(:total=>p.total, :count=>p.items.length)
The metric’s values
method will have to be changed to return an array of arrays, or new method introduced to keep the API backward compatible. And, of course, UI modified to display multiple series in a single graph.