[rrd-users] Streaming Events into RRD

[Simon Hobson]

Shriram Seshadri wrote:

>I have a couple of questions:
>1. Inserting data into rrd is possible. Is there a way to stream the 
>events in to rrd ?
>2. I have some 1000-1500 datasources. I need to accumulate values 
>from all these datasources and do some calculations (like average) 
>on the data collected and then insert only one data into the 
>archieve.
>Is this possible ? currently in rrd for each datasource one entry 
>goes into the archieve.

I'm sorry, but I just don't understand what you are asking.

I think you are asking about taking lots of different values from 
different sources, manipulating them in some manner to get one value, 
and then storing this in an RRD file. If so, then the manipulations 
are something you would have to script yourself.

On the other hand, if you are talking about having lots of bits of 
information coming from some source, and you want to accumulate them 
- then you can do updates as often as you like provided you don't try 
more than one update per second.
Eg, if you had a machine that randomly, and frequently, spat out some 
measure (eg number of widgets packed since the last report) - then 
you could just update the RRD file as each report came in, and these 
would be accumulated within each "step" period and then normalised.

You may find Alex's tutorials helpful :
http://www.vandenbogaerdt.nl/rrdtool/
particularly "Rates, normalizing and consolidating"

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