[Ganglia-general] Is there a way to Display deltas for metrics

2014-08-04 Thread Silver, Jonathan
Some of the metrics that we are collecting are totals since the system rebooted. That is not very interesting and it becomes a huge number that shows (percentage-wise) little change over time. Is there some way to change ganglia to display the change of this metric instead of it value

Re: [Ganglia-general] Is there a way to Display deltas for metrics

2014-08-04 Thread Khrist Hansen
I use gmetric from a script scheduled to run every minute via cron. Check 'man gmetric' for syntax, and there are example scripts here: http://www.perzl.org/ganglia/devicespecific.html Hope that helps, Khrist -Original Message- From: Silver, Jonathan

Re: [Ganglia-general] Is there a way to Display deltas for metrics

2014-08-04 Thread Silver, Jonathan
Thanks, but gmetric (I thought) was for the collection of metrics into ganglia. The metrics are already being collected but they are the sum since day 1. I guess that I could create a new metric by running a local script, get the latest 2 values from rrds, compute the difference and set that

Re: [Ganglia-general] Is there a way to Display deltas for metrics

2014-08-04 Thread Jesse Becker
Sounds like you have the RRD files set as a GAUGE when they should be a COUNTER. You could try using rrdtool to fix this on the fly. If you are using gmetric to send metrics, have a look at the --slope option. This is used when creating RRD files for the first time to set the metric (i.e.

Re: [Ganglia-general] Is there a way to Display deltas for metrics

2014-08-04 Thread Khrist Hansen
Correct, gmetric will the send your desired metric value and its attributes to gmetad. If the OS or application only provides the metric as a counter but you want them visualized as a gauge, then it is on you to calculate the delta *and* rate of occurrence over time. The example scripts from Dr.

Re: [Ganglia-general] Is there a way to Display deltas for metrics

2014-08-04 Thread Silver, Jonathan
You are correct - the rrds files do have type GAUGE. Some of these metrics are actually coming from jmxtrans - which has no capability to set the type of value. I cannot figure out the command within rrdtool to change from a gauge to a counter - how do I do this? -Original Message-

Re: [Ganglia-general] Is there a way to Display deltas for metrics

2014-08-04 Thread Jesse Becker
I think something like this should work: rrdtool tune my_metrics.rrd --data-source-type name_of_DS:COUNTER That's 100% untested, and you should make backups of your files, of course. You'll need to figure out the names of the DS entries, which you can get from 'rrdtool info my_metrics.rrd' On

Re: [Ganglia-general] Is there a way to Display deltas for metrics

2014-08-04 Thread Silver, Jonathan
Rrdtune worked. - thanks. How does --slope effect the metric type (Gauge ve Counter). What do I need to set slope to to get counter? Thanks again, jon -Original Message- From: Jesse Becker [mailto:haw...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 04, 2014 11:47 AM To: Silver, Jonathan Cc:

Re: [Ganglia-general] Is there a way to Display deltas for metrics

2014-08-04 Thread Jesse Becker
Here's a link (with more links) to what's what: http://codeblog.majakorpi.net/post/16281432462/ganglia-xml-slope-attribute (instead of just having me cut-n-paste). On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Silver, Jonathan jonathan.sil...@unify.com wrote: Rrdtune worked. - thanks. How does --slope

[Ganglia-general] Several links on ganglia.info do not work

2014-08-04 Thread Jonathan Davis
The ones I've seen so far on ganglia.info: On the demo page, the bleeding edge features demo link ( http://fjrkr5ab.joyent.us/ganglia-2.0/) gives an error. On the support page, both the link to the ganglia wiki page ( http://wiki.ganglia.info/) and the link to the ganglia forums (

[Ganglia-general] Ganglia install cannot find libconfuse cfg_parse

2014-08-04 Thread Jonathan Davis
libconfuse was installed via rpm and is present on my system. rpm -qa | grep libconfuse libconfuse-2.7-4.el6.x86_64 rpm -ql libconfuse gives me /usr/lib64/libconfuse.so.0 /usr/lib64/libconfuse.so.0.0.0 /usr/share/doc/libconfuse-2.7 /usr/share/doc/libconfuse-2.7/AUTHORS

Re: [Ganglia-general] Ganglia install cannot find libconfuse cfg_parse

2014-08-04 Thread Filipe Bonjour
Hi Jonathan, I've seen this on Fedora and I think Red Hat. You need to create the link manually: # ln -s libconfuse.so.0 /usr/lib64/libconfuse.so I'd expect the RPM install script to do this. Filipe -- Filipe Bonjour In theory there is no difference between theory and practice.

Re: [Ganglia-general] Extract Ganglia data for processing in R and python

2014-08-04 Thread Doug Johnson
Hi Sergio (and Ganglia community), Thanks so much for the prompt and helpful response. This is just what I was looking for. One unexpected surprise was that my simple four-data-node AWS/EC2 MapReduce cluster has almost 1,400 rrd files in /var/lib/ganglia/rrds. From the path names, I'm guessing

Re: [Ganglia-general] Extract Ganglia data for processing in R and python

2014-08-04 Thread Sergio Ballestrero
Hello Doug, On 5 Aug 2014, at 02:52, Doug Johnson dvjbi...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Sergio (and Ganglia community), Thanks so much for the prompt and helpful response. This is just what I was looking for. One unexpected surprise was that my simple four-data-node AWS/EC2 MapReduce cluster

Re: [Ganglia-general] Ganglia install cannot find libconfuse cfg_parse

2014-08-04 Thread Filipe Bonjour
Hi Jonathan, Thank you, Filipe. That allowed the configure script to complete without needing to specify any special parameters. I am not sure why the RPM script didn't handle it correctly. Neither am I, but I've seen this once or twice from Red Hat packages. I now run into an issue when