In this instance we have Observium/rrdtool configured to keep 730 days of 5 
minute samples so the data is there until we get beyond a couple of years. 
Guess we will need to export the data and run the analysis elsewhere.

> On Oct 6, 2022, at 11:55, Adam Armstrong via observium 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> 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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