Whisper not showing old data

kernel_kate

I have set retention policy as 10s:1d 1m:7d 15m:1y. But using this when I try to get one month data nothing is shown on graphite. Only last 24 hrs of data is shown. I tried to change retention policy to 1m:31d,15m:1y,1h:5y and running whisper-resize.py with --xFilesFactor=0.0 but no luck. I have also restarted carbon-cache.py. Also after this change, I checked count.wsd file using whisper-info for older dates but it shows None. Using...

Originally asked by Amit Sadafule on Stack Exchange (stackoverflow) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

It was due to /opt/graphite/conf/storage-aggregation.conf not present. I looked in carbon logs it was showing / opt/graphite/conf/storage-aggregation.conf not found, ignoring I guess old data is not available now. :( After enabling this also, data was retained in graphite more than 24 hrs. After digging more it turns out that datapoints required for aggregation were less. So I changed xFilesFactor=0.0 and resized whisper files again.. Now it is retaining old data points as well.

Full answer by Amit Sadafule: https://stackoverflow.stackexchange.com/a/34287345 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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