[rrd-users] Fwd: Fwd: New with rrdtool - data is not plotting to graph

[Ben]

Hi Simon,

Thanks for your kind response. I verified all the things again, but 
still it is not working.

I set heartbeat for 120 seconds so it is 2min.
I set step time is 60 seconds so it is updated for each minute.

my rrd command :
     rrdtool create a.rrd \
     --step 60 \
     DS:A:COUNTER:120:0:U \
     RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1:7200

By today, i again try with all new scripts, but same, one time i saw 
data on graph but then again, it is black.

Please provide your feedback for the same. Your given below link is not 
working.

BR
Ben



---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Simon Hobson <linux at thehobsons.co.uk>
Date: 11 September 2012 23:49
Subject: Re: [rrd-users] New with rrdtool - data is not plotting to graph
To: rrd-users at lists.oetiker.ch


Ben wrote:

>      it generates blank graph.
>
>
>      Where i did mistake, please provide your feedback.

Usual problem is that you haven't supplied enough data - either for
long enough or frequently enough to 'fill' any buckets. In your case,
you've used 120s (2min) buckets, so you need to provide data that
will span a 2 minute period which starts/ends on an integer multiple
of 2 minutes since unix epoch (midnight 1st Jan 1970) - which means
periods from 0 to 2 minutes past the hour, 2 to 4 minutes past, and
so on.

However, you've specified a heartbeat of 0, which means that 0
seconds after each update, the data is deemed to be unknown - you
should be able to see the problem there. The heartbeat is normally
set to somewhat longer than your normal update intervals so that a
variation in update times won't cause lost data - how long is
dependent on your particular situation.

>      One confusion from me : RRA stands for Round Robin Archive, so when
>we should use MAX/MIN/AVERAGE/LAST with RRA? Please provide some example.

The consolidations do what they say. When the primary data points are
consolidated, the specified function is applied. In your test case,
you've used 1 primary point per consolidated point so there is no
difference (they are null operations). However it's more normal to
consolidate multiple primary points into one longer consolidated
point - eg consolidating 12off 5 minutes periods into 1off 60minute
(1hour) period.

Take the following values :
1, 2, 3, 4, 10
If you consolidate them to one data point then :
Average gives you 4 (1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 10 = 20, 20/5 = 4)
Minimum gives you 1 - the smallest of all the values
Maximum gives you 10 - the largest of all the values
Last will give you 10 - the last value

Note that RRA relates to how the data is stored, not to how it is
calculated. If you are storing (say) 100 samples, then you'd have 100
buckets. You'd put a value in bucket 0, then bucket 1, then bucket 2,
and so on until all buckets are filled. Then after filling bucket 99
you loop back and overwrite bucket 0, then 1, and so on. The data
size is fixed, and there is no overhead in extending the file,
clearing old data, etc, etc. All it needs is a data structure to
store the data, and some pointers to keep track of where you are at
any point.

There are some good tutorials at http://www.vandenbogaerdt.nl/rrdtool/
In particular, see the one on consolidation and normalisation.

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