You could also do that math in your script. Have it read /proc once a second, calculate a bytes/sec avg once a minute, and send that to a second Graphite metric like Server.iface.eth0.bytesPerSecond
-Nick On Apr 27, 2011, at 1:30 AM, Kevin Blackham <[email protected]> wrote: > Question #154372 on Graphite changed: > https://answers.launchpad.net/graphite/+question/154372 > > Kevin Blackham proposed the following answer: > 1/60 gives you bytes per second if your dataset range is within the > 259200 second bucket. You want to *8 for bits. Scale 0.1333333. > > When I get some time, I'll be adding a patch for auto determining the > scale factor based on the storage interval used for the source values. > For example, if you go beyond 259200 second range, you are now dipping > into 300 sec and scale is 0.0266667, and there is no way to know > automatically other than to notice your graph is totally out of whack. > :) (or fetch with &rawData=1 and the interval is in the leading columns > of the csv.) > > On Apr 26, 2011, at 23:13, Matt Snow > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Question #154372 on Graphite changed: >> https://answers.launchpad.net/graphite/+question/154372 >> >> Matt Snow posted a new comment: >> Thanks Jason. I use the nonNegativeDerivative() but i'm fairly certain >> the byte counters in the Linux kernel do not roll over. there are >> actually a lot of gripes about this from Solaris admins since you can >> reset the network interface counters in Solaris. >> >> I guess I didn't really think about it much as for how to get the >> numbers looking how I want them. >> >> The storage retention for my network data is >> 60:259200,300:103680,3600:8760. Each metric sample is collected every 60 >> seconds and sent to graphite. so if 1 / 60 is 0.0166 then that should be >> my scale, correct? >> >> -- >> You received this question notification because you are a member of >> graphite-dev, which is an answer contact for Graphite. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~graphite-dev >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~graphite-dev >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > -- > You received this question notification because you are a member of > graphite-dev, which is an answer contact for Graphite. > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~graphite-dev > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~graphite-dev > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~graphite-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~graphite-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
