Hi all,
I know Zabbix handles numeric data in a way that it shows the absolute value for a given instant. But I have another type of data that accumulates over time (ie. number of bytes transmitted - not transmission rate).
When I am looking at a latest values -> graphs, I would like to see the sum of those values over a period of time. Example: when looking at a week chart, a pixel in the horizontal axis would be a period of 30 minutes. Instead of seeing the average number for the span of 30 minutes in each horizontal pixel I would like to see the sum of the values.
There is any way to do that?
Edit: The variable I am tracking is the number data items sent to a server. The values are sent to Zabbix (or to my current cacti) in a per request basis, so there is no defined period. In a minute Zabbix could receive a single report with the value 300, or 10 reports, each one with the value 20. What I want to show in the graph is the sum, 300 or 200 for each case respectively.
so you have a counter (a metric that is constantly increasing - like bytes transmitted over a network interface or total amount of queries against a database).
so if you are querying this counter every 5 minutes, over a 30 minute period you might get values of 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 13, 15. so summing them would get you 48 - which is a nonsense value
if your polling period would have been 10 minutes, over the same period you would get values 1, 4, 8, 15 - getting you a completely different value.
what i think you really wanted - to see difference between two points in time, so that counter values make sense.
depending on what you are monitoring and what you want to see, there are two possible options - you can set "store as" either to delta (which would store just the difference between two retrieved values), or "delta (speed per second)", which would show what the change per second was.
latter is the most widely used one, and it allows to grab - and properly graph - counters like network traffic, database queries per second and so on.
example cacti per 5 minutes:
thx for any help
parcival
I know Zabbix handles numeric data in a way that it shows the absolute value for a given instant. But I have another type of data that accumulates over time (ie. number of bytes transmitted - not transmission rate).
When I am looking at a latest values -> graphs, I would like to see the sum of those values over a period of time. Example: when looking at a week chart, a pixel in the horizontal axis would be a period of 30 minutes. Instead of seeing the average number for the span of 30 minutes in each horizontal pixel I would like to see the sum of the values.
There is any way to do that?
Edit: The variable I am tracking is the number data items sent to a server. The values are sent to Zabbix (or to my current cacti) in a per request basis, so there is no defined period. In a minute Zabbix could receive a single report with the value 300, or 10 reports, each one with the value 20. What I want to show in the graph is the sum, 300 or 200 for each case respectively.
so you have a counter (a metric that is constantly increasing - like bytes transmitted over a network interface or total amount of queries against a database).
so if you are querying this counter every 5 minutes, over a 30 minute period you might get values of 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 13, 15. so summing them would get you 48 - which is a nonsense value
if your polling period would have been 10 minutes, over the same period you would get values 1, 4, 8, 15 - getting you a completely different value.
what i think you really wanted - to see difference between two points in time, so that counter values make sense.
depending on what you are monitoring and what you want to see, there are two possible options - you can set "store as" either to delta (which would store just the difference between two retrieved values), or "delta (speed per second)", which would show what the change per second was.
latter is the most widely used one, and it allows to grab - and properly graph - counters like network traffic, database queries per second and so on.
example cacti per 5 minutes:
thx for any help
parcival
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