We'd like to be able to determine if our job server is sufficient for our needs. One thing we'd really like to know is if there are times when there are tons of jobs running simultaneously (like the middle of the night) and times when hardly anything is going on.
Is there a feature within visual cron or has someone written a tool that would allow us to maybe produce a chart that shows the time periods when jobs are running and quickly identify areas of too much load, etc. Seems like it would be doable to parse the logs to get that info, but I just thought I'd see if it has already been done.
Our higher ups get all gooey when we can show them a pretty picture illustrating a problem, especially if we are requesting additional resources.

We'd like to be able to determine if our job server is sufficient for our needs. One thing we'd really like to know is if there are times when there are tons of jobs running simultaneously (like the middle of the night) and times when hardly anything is going on.
Is there a feature within visual cron or has someone written a tool that would allow us to maybe produce a chart that shows the time periods when jobs are running and quickly identify areas of too much load, etc. Seems like it would be doable to parse the logs to get that info, but I just thought I'd see if it has already been done.
Our higher ups get all gooey when we can show them a pretty picture illustrating a problem, especially if we are requesting additional resources.

Hi Bruce,

Load balancing is something very sought after by our customers and we are working on it with top priority (will be released this year). It will be an amazing feature and addition to VisualCron once it's released, I can promise you that. It's a very complicated process in terms of programming though, so it's been taking some time, but it'll be worth the wait.

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