[rrd-users] extract timestamp from every sample

[Steve Shipway]

RRDTool does not store the original timestamp.  Instead, it normalises the
data to regular 'time-buckets' according to the step size the RRD file was
created with.  If knowing the original timestamp exactly is important to
you, then RRDTool is not the correct backend database for you to be using.
If it is fine to know within the range of the step size (usually something
like a 5min window) then it is fine.

 

When you do an RRDFetch, you get the start time, the time step, and the
array of datapoints.  The first data point is at the start time, the next at
starttime+step, and so on.

 

Steve

 

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From: rrd-users-bounces+s.shipway=auckland.ac.nz at lists.oetiker.ch
[mailto:rrd-users-bounces+s.shipway=auckland.ac.nz at lists.oetiker.ch] On
Behalf Of Fritjof Bornebusch - Skyfillers
Sent: Tuesday, 26 July 2011 10:28 p.m.
To: rrd-users at lists.oetiker.ch
Subject: [rrd-users] extract timestamp from every sample

 

Hi folks,

 

I have to get the timestamp from every sample which is in the data array:

 

info , ds_rrd , data = rrdtool.fetch( rrd_file, "AVERAGE", "--start",
str(start), "--end", str(end) )

 

How can I extract the timestamp?

 

I'm using the Python API.

 

Regards,

Fritjof

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