Re: Graph Utils (Open-Source)

2011-02-21 Thread Christopher O'Brien
On 02/20/11 23:45, Jimmy Hess wrote: On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Max Pierson nmaxpier...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone out there using something other than rrdtool for creating graphs?? I have a project that will need a trend taken, and unfortunately rrdtool doesn't fit the bill. All of the

Re: Graph Utils (Open-Source)

2011-02-21 Thread Max Pierson
Hiya Jimmy!! How has it been? For simple visualizations, I think usually a 'native' framework/API is preferred, e.g. JGraph for java apps. Unfortunately, I'm not savvy with Java at all, so the really cool viz API's wont work for me (there's just something about Java ... I simply can't get

Re: Graph Utils (Open-Source)

2011-02-21 Thread Joe Loiacono
Max Pierson nmaxpier...@gmail.com wrote on 02/21/2011 04:15:46 PM: Unfortunately, I'm not savvy with Java at all, so the really cool viz API's wont work for me (there's just something about Java ... I simply can't get into it and I see alot of Java based apps that are resource hogs). I was

Re: Graph Utils (Open-Source)

2011-02-21 Thread Max Pierson
The GD 'C' package has great Perl interfaces called GD, and GD:Graph I'm test driving GD as well. Trying out a few other tools that were mentioned here also. Trying to get a feel for which I like best. Thanks for all of the replies! On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Joe Loiacono jloia...@csc.com

Re: Graph Utils (Open-Source)

2011-02-20 Thread Max Pierson
Is scaling of rrdtool still a problem for you with rrdcached? This helps on some of my network/server related graphs, but this data is not exactly time based (well timestamps are recorded, but not at cyclic intervals). Plus the dataset is extremely large (100's of millions or rows already in

Re: Graph Utils (Open-Source)

2011-02-20 Thread Jimmy Hess
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Max Pierson nmaxpier...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone out there using something other than rrdtool for creating graphs?? I have a project that will need a trend taken, and unfortunately rrdtool doesn't fit the bill. All of the scripting, data collection, database

Re: Graph Utils (Open-Source)

2011-02-19 Thread Rene Skjoldmose
On 2011-02-18 22:03, Max Pierson wrote: Nothing at all :)My problem is with rrdtool. It doesn't scale for this project. I was looking into GNUplot, but wanted to see what else was out there as well. Is scaling of rrdtool still a problem for you with rrdcached?

Re: Graph Utils (Open-Source)

2011-02-19 Thread Max
Even with rrdcached, the I/O from many RRD files being updated often will hammer the I/O subsydtem of most hosts :) We have a host with around 50k RRD data files and rrdcached running, most are updated every 5 mins, some every minute (Nagios + PNP) - with RAID 10 and 10k rpm disks the io wait on

Re: Graph Utils (Open-Source)

2011-02-19 Thread Max
Twitter is releasing a high volume metrics collection store based on cassandra as open source soon - if you will be scaling big, might be worth looking into. On 2/19/11, Max perld...@webwizarddesign.com wrote: Even with rrdcached, the I/O from many RRD files being updated often will hammer the

Re: Graph Utils (Open-Source)

2011-02-18 Thread Paul Graydon
On 02/18/2011 09:13 AM, Max Pierson wrote: Hi List, Anyone out there using something other than rrdtool for creating graphs?? I have a project that will need a trend taken, and unfortunately rrdtool doesn't fit the bill. All of the scripting, data collection, database archival, etc will be

Re: Graph Utils (Open-Source)

2011-02-18 Thread Joe Loiacono
Thomas Boutrell's 'GD'. http://www.libgd.org/Main_Page Joe From: Max Pierson nmaxpier...@gmail.com To: nanog group nanog@nanog.org Date: 02/18/2011 02:15 PM Subject: Graph Utils (Open-Source) Hi List, Anyone out there using something other than rrdtool for creating graphs?? I have a

Re: Graph Utils (Open-Source)

2011-02-18 Thread david raistrick
On Fri, 18 Feb 2011, Max Pierson wrote: Hi List, Anyone out there using something other than rrdtool for creating graphs?? I have a project that will need a trend taken, and unfortunately rrdtool doesn't fit the bill. All of the scripting, data collection, database archival, etc will be custom

Re: Graph Utils (Open-Source)

2011-02-18 Thread Peter A. Friend
I've used gnuplot for several projects and found it very flexible. Gnuplot is also handy because it's easy to feed it commands over a pipe. I also recommend the Gnuplot In Action book - it saved me a ton of time. I have also used matplotlib within Python. For more interactive graphs I've

Re: Graph Utils (Open-Source)

2011-02-18 Thread Jon Lewis
On Fri, 18 Feb 2011, Max Pierson wrote: hacks of course :). So really what i'm looking for is something along the lines of GNUplot. Has anyone used it before and would like to share experiences?? Seems like it will be able to my plot data accordingly, but wanted to see if there were any other

Re: Graph Utils (Open-Source)

2011-02-18 Thread Max Pierson
What's wrong with GNUplot? Nothing at all :)My problem is with rrdtool. It doesn't scale for this project. I was looking into GNUplot, but wanted to see what else was out there as well. Thanks for all of the on and off list replies so far. I'll follow up after test driving a few of the

Re: Graph Utils (Open-Source)

2011-02-18 Thread Paul Graydon
Mostly I've heard bad things about matplotlib under Python. Lots of good features, but buggy and a bit of a memory hog. How did you find it? On 02/18/2011 10:34 AM, Peter A. Friend wrote: I've used gnuplot for several projects and found it very flexible. Gnuplot is also handy because it's

Re: Graph Utils (Open-Source)

2011-02-18 Thread Marco F. Delaurenti
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 01:13:54PM -0600, Max Pierson wrote: Hi List, Anyone out there using something other than rrdtool for creating graphs?? I have a project that will need a trend taken, and unfortunately rrdtool doesn't fit the bill. All of the scripting, data collection, database

Re: Graph Utils (Open-Source)

2011-02-18 Thread Jim Gettys
On 02/18/2011 05:32 PM, Marco F. Delaurenti wrote: On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 01:13:54PM -0600, Max Pierson wrote: Hi List, Anyone out there using something other than rrdtool for creating graphs?? I have a project that will need a trend taken, and unfortunately rrdtool doesn't fit the bill. All