Stream Counter RRD Structure

November 18, 2009

Create RRD file (can be graphed with this script):

rrdtool create filename.rrd
--step '10'
'DS:Low:GAUGE:30:U:U'
'DS:High:GAUGE:30:U:U'
'DS:HLS:GAUGE:30:U:U'
'DS:RTSP:GAUGE:30:U:U'
'DS:Flash:GAUGE:30:U:U'
'DS:iPad:GAUGE:30:U:U'
'DS:Roku:GAUGE:30:U:U'
'RRA:LAST:0.5:1:8640'
'RRA:MAX:0.5:6:10080'
'RRA:MAX:0.5:30:51840'
'RRA:MAX:0.5:360:8760'

Details:

• Step interval is 10 seconds
• 7 GAUGE datasets
• 4 Archive datasets:
  • Archive point is saved every 10 sec, archive kept for 1 day back.
  • Archive point is saved every 1 min, archive kept for 7 days back.
  • Archive point is saved every 5 min, archive kept for 6 months back.
  • Archive point is saved every 1 hour, archive is kept for 1 year back.