On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 11:40:30AM +1200, Tim Uckun wrote: > I want to keep trends about a table in my database. There are a > handful of fields I am interested in less than a dozen. My idea is to > send the values of those fields to rrd on a periodic basis and trend > their values over time.
Is this period the same for each, or do they have to be independent? > My big worry is the number of records in the database. It is my > understanding that I would need a different rrd database for every > record which means I might need hundreds of thousands of databases > maybe even over a million. Is there a way to sore two dimensional > data in a single RRD database? Yes you can. Multiple items can be tracked in a single database. You just add in additional data sources (DS) when you create the database. See example 3 on the rrdcreate documentation page. -- Darren _______________________________________________ rrd-users mailing list rrd-users@lists.oetiker.ch https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/rrd-users
