Graphite -- How to send data to carbon that have timestamps over a year old

plumb_pete

I'm using graphite to store and plot data and I want to send data points to the carbon daemon that are over a year old (first data point is from Dec 12, 2013 and last is Jan 12, 2015) but whisper does not seem to be capable (at least, not with my current settings) of accepting values more than 24-hours old. Whenever I send metrics over a year old to carbon (using the plain text protocol), it simply drops them. I can tell because when I run...

Originally asked by Maxwell Morgan on Stack Exchange (stackoverflow) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

I've found my mistake, whisper-fetch.py has a default time range of the past 24 hours unless specified otherwise. One I changed the call to the format ./whisper-fetch.py --pretty --from=TIMESTAMP --until=TIMESTAMP /path/to/whisper/file.wsp Everything worked fine and my data was there. Another useful tip would be to use graphite's URL api to query the database and check for the data there. Here's some documentation: http://graphite.readthedocs.org/en/latest/render_api.html

Full answer by Maxwell Morgan: https://stackoverflow.stackexchange.com/a/31270310 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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