Graph types

[Clansman]

Hi,

There's a nasty limitation that I really feel that should be taken care of (if possible).

Imagine graphing the memory of a host; I want to have buffer memory, user memory, shared memory AND free memory on the same graph. Graphing all these items independently doesn't really give a good picture of the memory state: Ideally, those different memory usage metrics should be stacked, because the sum of all of them is a constant - the memory size.

So I suggest the ability to generate stacked graphics. It's useful for CPU utilization (nice+user+idle+system), number of processes (running+sleeping), and eventually others that I can't remember right now.

Cheers,
Pedro Venda.

[just2blue4u]

there was a suggestion to support pie graphs a few days ago. I think they would be the best way for drawing the items named above.

[KarmaPolice]

i've actually long been a fan of stacked graphs too...

and i seem to recall it being listed as an upcoming feature at one point... but i guess it either fell through or just never got implemented...

either way, i know the next release is probably a little ways off, but yeah, would be nice to have...

[Clansman]

yes, I agree.
In fact I've just suggested such feature (some hours ago). :-)

Cheers,
Pedro Venda.

[Clansman]

there was a suggestion to support pie graphs a few days ago. I think they would be the best way for drawing the items named above.

For this case, I disagree, because pie graphs show a snapshot in time of the current situation. The stacked x/y graph shows the evolution of the monitored variables.

Cheers,
Pedro Venda.

[nbakker]

Just posted about this 5 minutes ago, there seems to be some interest for these kind of graphs....personally I am looking for stacked as I am graphing protocols traversing a WAN link (Cisco NBAR).

[Clansman]

oops! please disregard my comment. It was meant to be made on "your" thread :-)

Cheers,
Pedro Venda.