Graphite is not graphing anything for ranges bigger than 7 hours
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Solution
I had a similar problem; for me it wasn't the retention rules, but the aggregation rules. By default, my counters were being assigned to `--agggregationMethod average` and `-xFilesFactor 0.5`. But my data was nowhere near that dense, so the aggregator was throwing away my data on the grounds that there wasn't a statistically significant sample available.
In my particular use case, I was interested in the peak value over some time period, so I used `whisper-resize.py` to reconfigure my database: `--aggregationMethod max`, `--xFilesFactor 0.0` gave me the behavior I was expecting.
See also storage-aggregation.conf
Problem
My current retention rule is like so: ``` [whatever] priority = 110 pattern = ^stats\.whatever\..* retentions = 60:10080,600:262974 ``` If I understand correctly, this will save 2 days of 1 minute data and 5 years of ten minute data. I have been sending data to graphite for the last couple of hours and I can see the a graph of this data but only for ranges less than 7 hours. If I try to visualize this data for a range of, for example, 1 day, the resulting graph doesn't show a single data point. Is this caused by my retention rule? thanks in advance.