<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 7:28 AM, Lindsay Holmwood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lindsay@holmwood.id.au">lindsay@holmwood.id.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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I'd be very interested to hear how you think Visage compares with Graphite.<br></blockquote><div><br>I haven't used Visage, but I just watched the video at <a href="http://auxesis.github.com/visage/">http://auxesis.github.com/visage/</a> and already think Visage is one of the best RRD visualizers. I share your opinion that the graphing portion of RRD lacks and I believe your approach of using newer visualizer tools/technology without sacrificing the RRD storage format (for better or worse - the Graphite people have opinions worth reading on that) is worth pursuing.<br>
<br>Visage and Graphite both have interactive graphs, wildcard/dynamic metrics collections/graphing, and the ability to save graphs (all features that I don't want to live without once I've used). However, it appears Graphite still has an edge when it comes to data transformations. With Graphite, you can perform functions on data, such as summing, taking derivatives or integrals, calculate moving average, filter min or max values, etc. This is all done dynamically, of course. If Visage (or any other RRD front-end) could do that, I think it would be on roughly equal ground with Graphite.<br>
<br>Keep up the great work!<br><br>Gregory<br></div></div>