Show daily stats graph with log-y scale

[Christopher Scheidel]

Often times there are spikes in unusual activities (connection attempts, blocked emails, etc). When this occurs, the daily stats graph on the administration page is useless since the y-axis is linear. A log scale display of this data may be more effective to show events with both low and high occurrence rates.

See the example below where there are interesting stats such as delivered emails, quarantined emails, etc that are dwarfed by the one day of a high volume of invalid connections.

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[SH]

Well, it seems that logarithmic (https://www.chartjs.org/docs/latest/axes/cartesian/logarithmic.html) is just awful to represent these stats. See:

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[Alexander]

I think this issue could easily be solved by implementing a possibility to hide parameters (e.g. hide invalid connections)

[Christopher Scheidel]

I disagree that it is awful to represent the stats. You can clearly see the lower values on a log scale. I do think the Y-axis would need to be cleared up so that its not scientific notation however.

That said, Alexander’s suggestion might be useful as well.

Not committed to needing this, just suggestion. Feel free to downvote or pass on it.

[Scott MacDonald]

I agree there is a problem displaying stats which include skewed numbers due to events outside one's control. However, I’m uncertain how best to resolve issues with errand data. If there was better trapping then those events with invalid connections could be severed sooner and maybe avoid inflated numbers.

I don't think hiding the counters is of any benefit as all stats are generally relevant if not skewed.