Re: Question regarding missing data points
Simon Hobson <[email protected]> Wed, 26 Oct 2016 15:24:35 +0100
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Alex van den Bogaerdt <[email protected]> wrote: > You are not writing points, you are writing rates which are measured > during some interval. > The rate "8" is for time 1477433700..1477434300. This is however not > allowed because of your heartbeat setting and gets lost. > > What happens if you do update at time 1477434000, using value U ? Would that make a difference ? I know that with a counter type, the second interval would still be unknown because the (b-a)/t calculation can't be done if a is unknown - but how does RRD handle the gauge type ? As "everything is a rate", does this limitation still apply with the gauge type ?