[ZendTo] ZendTo System Statistics Question

[Brian Novogradac]

Thank you for response, this answers my question clearly!!



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From: zendto-bounces at zend.to [mailto:zendto-bounces at zend.to] On Behalf Of Jules
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Subject: Re: [ZendTo] ZendTo System Statistics Question

Brian,

The graphs are all generated, and the data managed, by "rrdtool":
     http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/

One of the great advantages of rrdtool is that its own data file from which it draws the graphs does *not* grow over time as it collects more data. Which means it never needs any maintenance from you.

So don't expect to be able to extract all the numbers that have ever been fed into it. You can't. It keeps what it needs to draw the graphs, but no more. You cannot ask it to "draw a detailed graph for this particular day 6 months ago".

And the ZendTo database does not keep historical data either. Once a drop-off has been expired, it's gone from the ZendTo data completely. 
Again, that is to stop database tables growing over time, which requires maintenance effort to prune.

I've tried quite hard to make ZendTo a package that needs no maintenance at all, once in production.

Cheers,
Jules.

On 17/05/2017 20:17, Ricky Boone wrote:
> The RRD scripts are pulling info from the database.  Depending on 
> which database type you're using (SQLite, MySQL, etc.) and how you 
> intend on displaying this information may dictate how easy it will be 
> to do.  If what you're doing can be done locally, SQLite or MySQL 
> scripting should be pretty easy.  If it's remote, MySQL may be 
> required (not sure about good ways to do full remote access to SQLite 
> without causing other issues).
>
> For example, one of the SQL queries involved against a MySQL instance is:
>
> SELECT * FROM dropoff ORDER BY created
>
> The SQL query called by the same PHP function for SQLite3 is:
>
> SELECT rowID,* FROM dropoff ORDER BY created
>
> It might help to understand what you're intending on doing.
>
> On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 8:49 AM, Brian Novogradac 
> <Brian.Novogradac at utoronto.ca> wrote:
>> Is there any way to get some numerical stats based on the graphs 
>> provided in the admin console (System Statistics).  Where is it 
>> pulling these values from?
>>
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