Marcus Fleige wrote: > Hi there, > > here's my 2 cents about the gaps: > > From my experience, gaps are normally caused by missing datasets over a > period of time. RRD expects data within a time window defined in > the "step" and "heartbeat" variables. If data doesn't arrive in this > window, the value for the defined time frame is set to "NaN" (Not a > number), resulting in not being displayed in the generated image. > > Missing datasets are often caused by: > > - Huge service latencies, e.g. if you got lots of services to be checked > in a rather short period of time. (Got this with 3k services, which > should be checked in a period of 2 minutes -> 25 Checks/second is quite > a lot...) > > - non-fitting service check intervals. If you check your services in a > 15 minute interval, but your rrd files expect data every 5 minutes, only > every third time frame will be filled, resulting in gaps. > > Maybe this is of some use.
It is, it explains a lot. I'll do some adjustments and tests and report back to this thread. Thanks /L ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
