[olug] rrdtool rulez

[Jay Swackhamer]

wouldnt you rather just type your data into Excel and create your graphs
manually?.....Think about the job security........

>
> Wow. rrdtool is cooler than I thought. I've been messing with it for a
> week and now I have 25 different things I'm monitoring by minute, week,
> year, and biannually (approx.).
>
> I was introduced to RRD via MRTG and Big Brother, but I didn't realize
> how cool and customizable it was for your own arbitrary stuff.
>
>     http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/
>
> Using a Perl library to talk to RRD makes things even quicker to set up:
>
>     http://search.cpan.org/~mschilli/RRDTool-OO-0.11/lib/RRDTool/OO.pm
>     (Thanks Mike!!)
>
> I wrote a little (Perl) CGI wrapper around it and now I can RRD, graph,
> and trend any new datapoint I want in about 10 minutes.
>
> I also didn't realize how sweet the RRD built-in graphing stuff is. Mix
> and match (stack, multi-line, whatever) all your different RRD
> datasets. Run calculations, summaries, whatever. Graphs pop out
> instantly in gobs of different styles, formats, etc. Don't like the
> look? Tweak the config and the graph changes -- the data is completely
> stand-alone.
>
> Much quicker than GD::Graph'ing stuff myself!! -grin-
>
> j
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