[rrd-users] limit max value for graphs "intelligently"

Tobias Oetiker tobi at oetiker.ch
Thu Oct 30 14:34:18 CET 2008


Carsten,

Today Schmoll, Carsten wrote:

>
> Dear Tobi, et al,
>
> is there a way to set the max Y value plotted in a
> graph to something like "average_value * 3" ?
>
> This would help me very much in that it would
> prevent my graphs to become extremely compressed
> due to a single huge outlier value.

for this you have to do two runs, one to figure the average and one
to draw ...

cheers
tobi
>
> Thanks and best regards
> Carsten
>
>

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