[drraw-users] Using Multiple Y-Axes | Graphing Particular Time-Based Views

Christophe Kalt kalt at taranis.org
Wed Nov 19 15:00:17 MST 2008


On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Pranay Khurana
<pranay at hudson-trading.com>wrote:

> Is it possible to use multiple Y-Axes?
>
> I have one set of values that ranges from 1-1000, while another that ranges
> from 0 - 0.999.
>
> If I graphed them together on the same Y-Axis, the auto-scaling horribly
> messes up the view. It would be very helpful if I can put both values in
> different scales along independent Y-Axes (one on the left, and one on the
> right, similar to how MS Excel does it). I don't know if this is a
> possibility with drraw....
>
> Also, if we want to suppress the graphing of certain time periods in an
> RRD, is that doable? If you only have data that is valid between normal work
> hours (let's say 9AM-5PM), it doesn't matter for the sysadmin to see all
> data between 5:01PM - 8:59AM of the next day. So if I'm looking at a
> template that shows all the data for the previous week, it would be
> exceedingly useful if I see the data from 9AM-5PM only, for the previous
> week. Does this make sense, and I'm wondering if there's *any* way to
> accomplish this type of view, whether with drraw or some other RRD-based
> open source graphing utility???
>

These are limitations are RRDtool, not drraw.  i don't believe you can do
any of the above.
Best thing you can do at this point is probably read up on the RRDtool
graphing documentation.

Christophe
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