[Enhancement]: Network stats in bps, not Bps

[bewing]

What's the general idea for the enhancement?

Network statistics from the network side are historically measured in bits, not bytes. While it's not unheard of to measure bytes directly (as packets are on byte boundries), it may make more sense to those who run networks to visualize workloads in terms of bits per second, not bytes per second, as the speeds of various interfaces are at bit boundries (10gb/s, 1gb/s, etc).

I'm not sure if this is something that could be automatically handled via a switch (a transform toggle that multiplies all readings by 8 and changes labels?) or would need consensus on for a global change, but network engineers have historically shown network traffic graphs in bits, not Bytes.

I'm unfortunately not a jsonnet expert (and not a JS dev at all) or I would submit a pull request, but multiplying any rate measure by 8 should take care of this.

Please provide any helpful snippets.

What parts of the codebase does the enhancement target?

Dashboards

Anything else relevant to the enhancement that would help with the triage process?

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[skl]

Makes sense @bewing, next question: SI or IEC?

SI:

IEC:

The unit is a visualisation setting on each dashboard panel, which you can change right now if you edit your own dashboards manually, as in the screenshots above.

Application developers might be more familiar with Bps rather than bps. I could make the network data unit a config option, so that all the dashboards could be re-generated easily. I would be tempted to keep the current setting as the default. You could then update your config file and set your unit of choice, re-generate and re-import the dashboards if you preferred the as-code approach.

How does that sound?

[bewing]

On networks, it's generally SI (a 10G NIC is one thousand times faster than 1G, not 2**10 times faster)

More than happy for this change to be opt-in

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