@tallpsmith had a good idea to add an option to pmrep to always display all metric columns part of a metricset, even if they're are missing from the archive or unavailable for any other reason. This way the output layout will be the same as the eye has gotten used to. This is especially helpful when mimicking widely used tools such as vmstat but also with custom metricsets it would hint the user that more information would be displayed e.g. after installing a PMDA.
Details to be determined but the default behavior probably should not change, instead a new configuration option could be added and then used in metricset definitions in configuration files as appropriate.
@tallpsmith had a good idea to add an option to pmrep to always display all metric columns part of a metricset, even if they're are missing from the archive or unavailable for any other reason. This way the output layout will be the same as the eye has gotten used to. This is especially helpful when mimicking widely used tools such as vmstat but also with custom metricsets it would hint the user that more information would be displayed e.g. after installing a PMDA.
Details to be determined but the default behavior probably should not change, instead a new configuration option could be added and then used in metricset definitions in configuration files as appropriate.