[rrd-users] Newbie question

[Andy Riebs]

Dan,

There's been a very recent, and sometimes unpleasant, discussion on this 
topic on this very list; check the list archive for January at 
<https://lists.oetiker.ch/pipermail/rrd-users/2008-January/thread.html>.

Regards,
/andy

Dan Richman wrote:
> Hello all -
>
> I'm new to RRDtool and trying to track DAILY logins to a website.  So
> each day we will update the RRD with a count of the logins for that
> day.  This was my create syntax:
>
> rrdtool create logins.rrd
> --start 1138856400
> --step 86400
> DS:logins:GAUGE:86400:U:U
> RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1:1825
> RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:30:60
> RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:60:30
> RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:90:20
>
> As you can see, I'm keeping averages for 30 days, 60 days, and 90 days.
>
> Thing is, when I run the results:
>
> rrdtool fetch logins.rrd AVERAGE --start 1144209600 --end 1200978000
>
> I would expect daily totals but instead am getting strange (i.e.
> 3.7916666).
>
> Any help is appreciated!
>
>
>
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