[rrd-users] Graphing COUNTER values absolutely

[Simon Hobson]

Felix Castillo Sanchez wrote:
>  > I'm trying to graph COUNTER values but not as a rate per second but as
>>  number per defined step (e.g. "changes within 5 minutes").
>>
>  > Is there a way how to graph this?


>If a rate is (e.g.) 10 per second, then it is (e.g.) 3000 per 5 minutes.


>but what if rrdtool is using RRAs where data is aggregated?


Then you'll get aggregated values ! You can't graph data that you 
haven't got, so if you have aggregated the data then the results will 
be from the aggregated data. Note that RRD **ALWAYS** normalises and 
aggregates data - but if you are careful enough then you can make 
this into a null operation.

What is it that you are trying to do, and what isn't rrdtool doing for you ?