[mvolo]

hi Steve,

Author here. I think most people on HN would echo your sentinment about averages wholesale ... But I wanted to go a little deeper into selecting a better alternative for operational monitoring.

Its easy to say "averages are bad" but harder to say "use X instead", and explain why. We tried. Do you think we did it?

[chetanahuja]

Well the title seems a bit childish (since obviously everybody on HN knows it's a terrible idea.) Why don't you change to post title to more appropriately reflect what you were trying to propose as an alternative.