People sometimes claim that if a performance measure has not been recorded directly, then it is not possible to report on it.  Need to know how long a batch job took to run? That’s ok – I have a table that tells me job run times.  But if you need to know how much work a batch job did?  We don’t record throughput, they say.  This may be followed by a suggestion that they could add log messages or something like that. Continue reading →