Part 78: Bullying the poor new Honeycomb widget

Earlier this week, I immediately installed Zabbix 7.0beta3 when it came out. Back then I quickly tried out the new Honeycomb widget with some actual data.

As a regular follower of a weird gaming channel Let's Game It Out on YouTube, I couldn't resist thinking in that channel host Josh voice in my head saying "I wonder if there's a limit..." (to the number of elements you can have on Honeycomb widget).

Select ALL the things!

My What's up, home? Zabbix is very small, with only 3172 active items.

Nevertheless, I decided to see what happens if I select ALL of them to be part of my Honeycomb widget, doing it like this:



 

How does it look like?

This is how it looks, with about 3000 elements. Actually the widget even goes bit farther than that if I scroll, but you get the idea. It sure is busy as a bee.

How fast does it load?

Keep in mind that this is happening from my already overloaded Raspberry Pi 4 which sure ain't the fastest kid in the town. Anyway, without any further ado, here are the results according to my MacBook Pro M1 Safari: 

• the overall dashboard loads in less than three seconds
• for the honeycomb widget to show with the contents, the clock stops at about 14 seconds.

Of course, (I hope!) nobody uses honeycombs of that size in the real world, and of course, with actual server hardware, the results would be much faster. But not too bad for a Raspberry Pi!

How about a realistic size Honeycomb widget?

Here are the results from my test dashboard which has some other widgets, too. So here's the widget that gets loaded...

... or here's the full dashboard on which I just test all kinds of widgets ...

... and here's the Safari Timeline view for that.

So, overall in less than three seconds. Not too bad.