Re: [munin-users] sort fields of a graph based on the values

[Bjørn R. <bj...@ru...>]

On 12. april 2012 12:06, Darac Marjal wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:33:23AM +0200, Balint Deak wrote:
>>     Hi,
>>     Is it possible to sort the fields of a graph based on the current values?
>>     The usual workflow for some graphs is that I see that a value is too high,
>>     then as there are many values graphed it's hard to determine based on
>>     coloring which field has the high value. If the fields were sorted based
>>     on values, it would be much easier to find out which plotted value
>>     corresponds to which field.
>>     I tried googling, but it didn't help me much.
> As far as I'm aware, Munin doesn't sort the fields itself, but also
> won't change the sort order provided by your plugin.
>
> So what you need to do is modify the config stage of your plugin to
> return the fields in the order that you want them. For many plugins,
> this is a bit difficult as, at config time, they don't know whether the
> values are too high, normal, unknown etc. So you may also need to move
> the fetch stage into a common path, such that both the fetch and the
> config stages have access to the info.
>

You can use graph_order for this, but as has been mentioned you will 
need to know the values during the config run.

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Bjørn