[rrd-users] [RRDTool] Using anything else than time in X-Axis

[Eduardo M. Bragatto]

Baptiste Derongs wrote:

> I am currently looking for a graph-software. RRDTool seems great, with
> a lot of options to customize. But I do not want to use time in
> X-Axis.
> Basically I have a 2 columns list (latency - size), all values are
> already known. I would like to draw some graph from that list. Is it
> possible with RRDTool ?

If you're not dealing with samples over time (aka rates), rrdtool is not 
for you.

It's very clear on the documentation:

It's always a Rate
     RRDtool stores rates in amount/second for COUNTER, DERIVE and 
ABSOLUTE data. When you plot the data, you will get on the y axis 
amount/second which you might be tempted to convert to an absolute 
amount by multiplying by the delta-time between the points. RRDtool 
plots continuous data, and as such is not appropriate for plotting 
absolute amounts as for example ``total bytes'' sent and received in a 
router. What you probably want is plot rates that you can scale to 
bytes/hour, for example, or plot absolute amounts with another tool that 
draws bar-plots, where the delta-time is clear on the plot for each 
point (such that when you read the graph you see for example GB on the y 
axis, days on the x axis and one bar for each day).

http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc/rrdcreate.en.html

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Eduardo M. Bragatto.