[rrd-users] Strange GAUGE values when parsing MySQL output

Arthur Meeks Meeks arthur.meeks.luppu at gmail.com
Tue Aug 11 21:43:16 CEST 2009


2009/8/11 A Darren Dunham <ddunham at taos.com>

> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 09:28:50PM +0200, Arthur Meeks Meeks wrote:
> > Probably not, the script runs every 30 seconds and it took about a second
> to
> > generate the graph.
>
> Are you doing updates every 30 seconds?  Well, if you only have 300
> second buckets, then there's no chance you'll get back the exact
> numbers you put in.
>
> For that to happen you'd have to update exactly on the step
> boundaries.
>
> A step boundary is when the timestamp is evenly divisible by the step
> size.


Thanks Darren!

Yeah, I just noticed it when I was replying the email, I changed it to:

$RRDTOOL create $RRDFILE  -s 30 DS:delay:GAUGE:600:U:U RRA:LAST:0.5:1:10000

Thanks again
A
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