This also would be inaccurate. 

The method we use generates an accurate figure for graphs using 5 min samples, 
beyond that it’s not possible.

If one port does 999mb at the start of a 30 min period and another does 999mb 
25 mins later, we’d generate an aggregate max of 1998mb n any graph with these 
two ports and once they are averaged to 30min samples, which is obviously 
useless :)

There’s no actual solution to this, the data simply no longer exists at this 
point. We should /probably/ hide the aggregate max on graphs > 24hr

Adam.

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> On 6 Oct 2022, at 03:57, David Milton via observium 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> Thanks for the explanation. To my mind however, the aggregate max would be to 
> take the sum of all values of the same time and select the maximum sum. 
> Using an average for a maximum when all other values are discrete produces 
> results that aren’t useful. 
> I know it’s not Observium but that’s a major problem with rrdtool in my 
> opinion 
> 
>> On Wed, 5 Oct 2022, at 13:08, Adam Armstrong via observium wrote:
>> Hi David,
>> 
>> This is due to how rrdtool works. It doesn't make a lot of sense to 
>> aggregate the max of max together, so the max for the aggregate is the 
>> max of the aggregated averages, rather than the max of the max values, 
>> which wouldn't make a lot of senses since it'd be merging peaks which 
>> may not have actually occurred at the same time.
>> 
>> adam.
>> 
>> David Milton via observium wrote on 05/10/2022 17:55:
>>> Hello, 
>>> 
>>> We have been seeing some results in our stacked graphs that do not appear 
>>> to make sense.
>>> Initially we thought this was because the maximum values for the two values 
>>> occurred at different points in time.
>>> That cannot be the whole issue because even if you take the sum of every 
>>> pair of numbers the maximum aggregate must at least equal the maximum value 
>>> of one of the two series.
>>> 
>>> This graph shows the problem:
>>> 
>>> How can we have a maximum value of 97.4M but an aggregate maximum of 55.7M? 
>>> It seems that maximum aggregate should also at least be 97.4M.
>>> 
>>> What’s happening here?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>>  Dave.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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