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Building a graph in composer, nothing happens

Asked by Nathanael Anderson

I've been working with graph views in composer, and change the range to show from yesterday at 3:00pm to the current time, then click on update graph, and nothing happens to the graph. Is this feature not implemented yet?

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chrismd (chrismd) said : 		#1

The default storage retention is only 2 hours, meaning you won't be able to look back further than 2 hours unless you explicitly configure longer retention in your schemas file (better documentation forthcoming). You will also have to make sure the metrics you are interested in get created after the schema is set up, so you'll probably have to change the schema then delete your database files (files under /usr/local/graphite/storage/whisper that end in .wsp).

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Best chrismd (chrismd) said : 		#2

Also note I will probably change the default retention to be longer than 2 hours. It was only set this low because in our environments we have tons of dynamic data, so having a large default retention policy eats up lots of disk space very quickly.

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Nathanael Anderson (wirelessdreamer) said : 		#3

thanks for giving working examples to start with. Its hard enough to usually even find something new with a working example.