[rrd-users] Storing tags against a datapoint

[Simon Hobson]

Fizza Hussain <12mseefhussain at seecs.edu.pk> wrote:
> I want to store a datapoint with some information attached to it. Is it possible to store some tag fields against a datapoint? For example:


> timestamp:value  Source IP address  Dest IP address Protocol

> 1385720005:15   10.3.3.3         10.1.2.3       TCP



In a word - NO
Firstly, RRD does not store any datapoint you enter (all data entered is subject to nomalisation and consolidation). Secondly, it's completely outside of the scope of what RRD is designed to do.