More clarity on server load & performance indicators

[Zerema 0]

I’d love to see more detailed performance indicators in the server list as clearer real-time load, latency trends, or connection quality metrics. This would help users choose the best server for their needs without trial and error. Has this been discussed before? Would appreciate feedback from others on what metrics you find most useful.

[Tech Jedi Alex 1527]

1 hour ago, Zerema said:

clearer real-time load

How can the load percentage be conveyed even clearer in your opinion?
 

1 hour ago, Zerema said:

latency trends, or connection quality metrics

Those are highly subjective things depending on your setup, and I don't want to see them as data points in a server overview showing factual data valid for everyone the same way. Load (= bandwidth usage), number of clients and RTT between the servers are factual data valid for everyone, whereas your own latency and "connection quality metrics" are the result of your client's configuration, connection type and its config, ISP, routes, etcetc.
I mean, what is even the definition of "connection quality" in your own words? Preferably something that is valid for you, me and the random reader of this thread at the same time.

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yeah some more detailed metrics would be nice but you also have to balance privacy in that regard too. all packets are not the same. massive amounts of small udp packets are going to cause more overhead than full fat pipe mtu packets. many connections are going to cause more load than single connections. 

we dont know the hardware configuration or a myriad of other things to really get a clear picture on what it is but at the very least it would be good to have some kind of obfuscated alert system. for example maybe take the 95 percentile value on total connections vs latency and have some kind of warning banner or something when those servers are experiencing them. then at least if someone is trying to diagnose why their vpn is a bit slow at the moment it isn't a shot in the dark. 

not everything is about the pipe or the cores, interrupts and the types of packets that are being sent are other variables that can hide the true performance of the server