Logarithmic graphs?

[mabinogi]

Hi,

Is there any chance of having the option of a logarithmic scale on the Y axis for the graphs?

That would help readability on graphs where most of the action happens very close to 0, but occasional spikes compress the scale so much that the detail is lost...

Network traffic graphs are one instance of that - where a lot of the time the traffic is very low, but when it's high it's VERY high. You can often get the case similar to the following - where a spike up to 1Mbps makes it impossible to see the bit where it went from 1kbps to 5kbps.....

[Alexei]

Please, give me an example (an URL) of a logarithmic graph. I'd like to get better understanding how it might look like.

Many thanks!

[mabinogi]

Basically rather than having 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc on the y-axis, a logarithmic graph has 10^0, 10^1, 10^2, 10^3, 10^4, 10^5, etc (doesn't have to be 10 based but that's probably most useful)

Examples -
Linear Graph (http://stuartherring.com/linear.png)
Logarithmic Graph from the same data (http://stuartherring.com/log.png)

You can see in the example that the small values get compressed to the point where they all appear to be zero in the linear graph, but in the logarithmic one you can see the variation.

[richlv]

this was also recently filed as https://support.zabbix.com/browse/ZBXNEXT-599