Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} method for graphing server stuff?

[Iain Buchanan]

On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 19:10 +0100, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 09:24:35 -0800 Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote:
>
> > I was thinking it would be pretty handy to generate a series of
> > transposed (or not) graphs for data like cpu usage, mysql usage,
> > memory usage, external monitoring response times, http traffic, etc.
> > My external monitoring service has an API I can hook into and http
> > traffic is logged to mysql so I'm thinking I have good access to the
> > data, but I need a way to tie it all together into a useful
> > presentation.  Is there a good package for this?
>
> I think net-analyzer/rrdtool will probably come close to this. It's
> used by many other solutions, so you'll find a lot of examples on the
> Web.

+1 to rrdtool.  At my company, we set up rrdtool to graph 100's of
graphs per day on all sorts of data from different sources.  It's very
customisable, if you want to spend the time on it.  I also found the
creator and forum very supportive.

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