[rrd-users] Rrdtool for counting irregular events

[Simon Hobson]

Rafal Gwizdala wrote:

>We're getting close to the solution, however I don't like how this 
>forces me to manually handle step calculation.
>It complicates my software significantly - up to now I could rely on 
>rrdtool handling the step and date ranges.

You're best doing your own calcs anyway (and explicitly specify the 
resolution of data to be used) - it means you can optimise the 
graphs. If you just do (for example) "now-1month" to "now" then the 
graph may not be optimal. Pixels on the graph may not exactly match 
your data points, and so further data manipulation is needed. Also, I 
believe it's been vastly improved, but there used to be some 
situations where you could get the "wrong" consolidation used - a 
graph with lower resolution data than it should be.

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