Combine report in metrics

[hsane-dev]

If the call to "metrics" can be preceded by "report" we can get the svr_info report and the metrics in a single invocation of perfspect. Ofcourse one could invoke "perfspect report" && "perfspect metrics" but I believe this would still create 2 htnls, one for report and another for metrics. Can the htmls be combined into one, allowing reference to just one html result file. This could be done by adding a "report" flag to the "metrics" option and combining html in that case, while default if not combined.

[harp-intel]

Hi @hsane-dev ,

I understand the request. It would require a significant change to the application structure as the commands (report, metrics, telemetry, etc.) are very separate from a design standpoint. It would also require merging of the metrics and report HTML generation code, which for historical reasons is designed differently. In other words, this would be a large task. Not impossible, but would take the application in a direction I'm not currently willing to invest in.

That said, there may be some partial steps that can be taken within the metrics command itself. Some system data is already collected for the "metadata" but is only exposed in the log file. We may be able to surface some of this into the HTML report.

[hsane-dev]

Thanks, understandable that its a larger task. If major env variables from sys env can be converted into a "configuration" tab from the meta data, it would still be very useful. Thanks for considering.