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Read Time

A dashboard item that charts how long each device takes to answer a read, slowest first, against a slow line, leaving out devices not reading.

The Read Time item charts how long each device takes to answer a read, one bar per device, slowest first. Bars at or over the slow limit are amber, and the slow line is drawn where the bars come near it.

  • Header. The median read time, the slowest device, how many devices are slow and how many are not reading and left out of the chart.
  • Chart. Point at a bar to see the device's Edge Gateway and protocol.

Data fields

FieldKind
DeviceDimension
GatewayDimension
ProtocolDimension
Read time (ms)Measure
Seconds since last readMeasure

Device and Read time (ms) are required. With Seconds since last read bound, devices whose last read is older than the limit are left out and counted in the header.

Settings

SettingValuesDefault
Slow from (ms)A number from 1 to 60000500
Not reading after (s)A number from 5 to 86400120
Devices shownA number from 3 to 10012
  • Slow from (ms) is the read time from which a bar counts as slow.
  • Not reading after (s) is how old the last read may be before a device is left out.
  • Devices shown is how many bars the chart draws.

Where to see it

The Meridian demo plant uses it on Meridian · Connectivity Command Center.

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