[rrd-users] Question regarding missing data points

[Buescher, Friedhelm]

> Let me elaborate on this:
>
> > rrdtool update test.rrd 1477433700:15
> > # rrdtool update test.rrd 1477434000:NaN   # here is a missed measuring
> > point
> > rrdtool update test.rrd 1477434300:8
>
> > Can anyone advise how to setup the rrd, so that one missing PDP gets
> > exactly one NaN ?
>
> The problem is that you get 2, not 1, unknown PDPs. That is because the
> update at timestamp 1477434300 will fill all the time between the last update
> (1477433700) and itself. The rate is unknown because of your heartbeat
> settings.
>
> As far as I know you cannot do something in RRDtool to say that updates are
> for 300 seconds only and if there is more time not updated, it should be
> processed as if it was updated with U. But who knows, maybe I'm missing
> something.
>
> Unless someone else comes up with a better solution, you will have to
> update using U (for unknown) or accept that one more PDP will also be
> unknown.  If the monitoring is offline for e.g. 55 minutes, the next update
> will try to fill 12 PDPs which will all be unknown.
>
> A quick hack, if you can spare the resources, is to update 300 seconds ago
> with rate U and just ignore the error RRDtool will give you if that update was
> already successfully done.
>
> A less quick hack is to modify your scripts so that it remembers the last
> update time (or queries it from the RRD) and looks at the difference with
> now. If that is more than 300 seconds, then update with rate U and time
> now-300s.
>
Yes, i implemented the last approach and it worked as expected:

Everytime I get a new value to update, I ask the rrd to for the last timestamp (rrd->last). If this timestamp is older than $now -monitoring_intervall, I update the timestamp $now - $monitoring_intervall with U. After that, I update $now with the current value. This gives exactly one missing block in RRD as expected.


Thanks for your support in thinking!

Best regards,
Friedhelm







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