[rrd-users] Storing tags against a datapoint

[Tobias Oetiker]

Today Simon Hobson wrote:

> 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.

BUT, you could setup a small databse (sqlite for example) next to
each rrd file and manage your text based tags inthere ... reading
them back when drawing the charts ...

cheers
tobi

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