Static[future time] and Realtime metrics

Asked by Neel

Currently, I am trying to output a graph which has individual metrics related to projection, forecasting and live usage update.

Projection and forecast have values entered till year 2016.
Usage is updated daily and is meant as "real-day".

Current issue: Only able to output graph till time equals to today.
Thus, projection and forecast graphs do not show data points beyond today despite the future data points existing in the metrics.

Is there a way for Graphite to be able to read every single data point without focusing on until = now()?

I have tried to change the whisper.py file where until is always restricted to now() if data point is beyond now(). However this has not lead to any change.

Any ideas?

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Jason Dixon (jason-dixongroup) said :
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No, Graphite does not support future trending of datapoints.

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mike (gsaray101) said :
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Hi Neel:

I am using Grafana for front-end it is capable of showing future dates data. I modified the code a little to see if can do this, I can see the future date.

Would you mind sharing what you've done with the new function as I would like to be able t leverage it? I can send you what I've done so far.

thanks,

mike

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Neel (svn1991) said :
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Hi Mike

In the end, we used a server which calls for the data from metrics. The data pulled is then formatted using type and string manipulation. On graphite side, we ended up calling this server which provides the data(future dates included) that graphite needs to display.

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Avi Weit (weit) said :
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Hi,

I am also interested in displaying future time metrics using Graphite. I have a working installation of openstack ceilometer that publishes metrics into Graphite. I can properly see the metrics but only until current time.

I would like to ask Mike whether his working Grafana is configured with Graphite data source and which components did he modify to have it to show future dates data. Was graphite whisper database been modified? It would be nice if these changes can be shared with others.

Thanks and regards.

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Heitor Medrado de Faria (heitorfaria) said :
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Hello Mike,

Could you share how did you modified Graphite to display future times?

Rgds.