So the VM Performance eyeball in the NMM UI is a fantastic feature in the NMM UI. I can get a quick snapshot right now of where the most common metrics (CPU and Memory) are at. However, I recently recognized that the uptime value is not actually the uptime I thought it was. It is time since last allocated, not time since the OS last booted.
I recognize that this may be challenging to acquire from metrics inside Azure and the guest agent, but my request takes this into account
1- If we can actually get the OS uptime, please present that instead. If you are going to label it uptime, it should be what 99.9% of us are interpreting it as. The challenge is diminished on session hosts, but on servers, I have dozens that have not had a need to deallocate and reallocate in months if not years - yet they are patched monthly. Seeing uptime at 90+ days is misleading, as labelled
2 - If we cannot actually get the uptime displayed, fine - can we describe the view appropriately? either a tooltip, or something similar so that it is obvious to a consumer of the NMM portal doesn't jump to conclusions, thinking the server hasn't been getting patched, or why NMM isn't representing that the server was rebooted an hour ago?
As always, happy to collaborate on the topic.
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