[smokeping-users] Problems with detail graph scaling

[Dan Hamilton]

I had tried increasing unison_tolerance before, but apparently not high 
enough.  I adjusted it much higher and things are better now, but still 
not perfect.  It appears that adjusting it past a certain point is no 
longer having any effect.

It also seems that the scale used for the 3-hour graph is automatically 
used for the 30-hour and 10-day graphs as well?

It would seem to me that it would be nice to have a config option that 
would set the max scale on the detail graphs to the highest smoke, 
rather than basing it the median value.

Also, I still have the problem of the labels on some of the overview 
graphs.  Not catastrophic, but ugly none the less.

Thanks for your help.
-Dan

David Tomic wrote:
> That's because of the unison_tolerance setting in your smokeping
> configuration.
> 
> http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/doc/smokeping_config.en.html
> 
> unison_tolerance
>      if a graph is more than this factor of the median 'max' it drops
> out of the unison scaling algorithm. A factor of two would mean that any
> graph with a max either less than half or more than twice the median
> 'max' will be dropped from unison scaling
> 
> 
> The 30-hour graph is only showing 'properly', because the spike in your
> median rtt means that the rest of the smoke doesn't need to be chopped off.
> 
> Once you zoom in on the 30-hour graph, so that you remove that large
> spike, then you'll see that it goes back to cutting off the smoke again.
> 
> If you want to have it so that all the smoke is visible, then you just
> need to set a [much] higher unison_tolerance setting in your smokeping
> configuration file.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> --David Tomic