[rrd-users] How to parse a log into a rrd graph?

[Andy Riebs]

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Partly, I suppose it depends on your definition of "nice shape" :)

Please send some information about your RRD definitions, and the 
commands that  you are using to

a. Store the data
b. Generate the graph

/andy

On Friday 26 September 2008, digdug wrote:
> Hello,
>
> i have some logfiles, filled with accounting messages from my DSL
> router and want RRD to build a nice graph of the inbound and outbound
> traffic. The messages occures asynchronously, about every few
> seconds. They contain infos about how many bytes have bin received
> and send over the wire to that time. So the cumulated value over a
> given time period gives the ammount of data send/received in total.
>
> Now, i have written a parse for that logs getting:
> TIMESTAMP, BYTES-SEND, BYTES-RECEIVED
>
> Well, i feed that into an RRD but the resulting graph was
> frustrating. Instead of a nice shape i get only spikes in the graph,
> really ugly and unuseable. What do i do wrong?
>
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