Hi Marcus,
I got the same feeling as well and it’s probably because I never provided a e2e explanation of how I get where I am, so here it is:
In Influx:
- drop database bulkstats
- create database bulkstats
- exit
Post data to influx
- curl -i -XPOST ‘http://localhost:8086/write?db=bulkstats’ --data-binary @/tmp/foo
where /tmp/foo is:
[admin@httstools ~]$ more /tmp/foo
P2P,Nodename=ALPRGAGQPND,p2p-duration-name=0,p2p-protocol=lync-file-transfer p2p-duration-value=10 0000001000000
P2P,Nodename=ALPRGAGQPND,p2p-duration-name=0,p2p-protocol=lync-file-transfer p2p-duration-value=20 0000002000000
P2P,Nodename=ALPRGAGQPND,p2p-duration-name=0,p2p-protocol=lync-file-transfer p2p-duration-value=30 0000003000000
P2P,Nodename=ALPRGAGQPND,p2p-duration-name=0,p2p-protocol=lync-file-transfer p2p-duration-value=40 0000004000000
P2P,Nodename=ALPRGAGQPND,p2p-duration-name=0,p2p-protocol=lync-file-transfer p2p-duration-value=50 0000005000000
P2P,Nodename=ALPRGAGQPND,p2p-duration-name=0,p2p-protocol=lync-file-transfer p2p-duration-value=60 0000006000000
P2P,Nodename=ALPRGAGQPND,p2p-duration-name=0,p2p-protocol=lync-file-transfer p2p-duration-value=70 0000007000000
P2P,Nodename=ALPRGAGQPND,p2p-duration-name=0,p2p-protocol=lync-file-transfer p2p-duration-value=80 0000008000000
P2P,Nodename=ALPRGAGQPND,p2p-duration-name=0,p2p-protocol=lync-file-transfer p2p-duration-value=90 0000009000000
P2P,Nodename=ALPRGAGQPND,p2p-duration-name=0,p2p-protocol=lync-file-transfer p2p-duration-value=10 1511979610000
P2P,Nodename=ALPRGAGQPND,p2p-duration-name=0,p2p-protocol=lync-file-transfer p2p-duration-value=20 1511979620000
P2P,Nodename=ALPRGAGQPND,p2p-duration-name=0,p2p-protocol=lync-file-transfer p2p-duration-value=30 1511979630000
P2P,Nodename=ALPRGAGQPND,p2p-duration-name=0,p2p-protocol=lync-file-transfer p2p-duration-value=40 1511979640000
P2P,Nodename=ALPRGAGQPND,p2p-duration-name=0,p2p-protocol=lync-file-transfer p2p-duration-value=50 1511979650000
P2P,Nodename=ALPRGAGQPND,p2p-duration-name=0,p2p-protocol=lync-file-transfer p2p-duration-value=60 1511979660000
P2P,Nodename=ALPRGAGQPND,p2p-duration-name=0,p2p-protocol=lync-file-transfer p2p-duration-value=70 1511979670000
P2P,Nodename=ALPRGAGQPND,p2p-duration-name=0,p2p-protocol=lync-file-transfer p2p-duration-value=80 1511979680000
P2P,Nodename=ALPRGAGQPND,p2p-duration-name=0,p2p-protocol=lync-file-transfer p2p-duration-value=90 1511979690000
- Verify data is in influx
use bulkstats
Using database bulkstats
select * from “P2P”
name: P2P
time Nodename p2p-duration-name p2p-duration-value p2p-protocol
1000000 ALPRGAGQPND 0 10 lync-file-transfer <<< timestamp starts Jan 1 1970 00:00
2000000 ALPRGAGQPND 0 20 lync-file-transfer
3000000 ALPRGAGQPND 0 30 lync-file-transfer
4000000 ALPRGAGQPND 0 40 lync-file-transfer
5000000 ALPRGAGQPND 0 50 lync-file-transfer
6000000 ALPRGAGQPND 0 60 lync-file-transfer
7000000 ALPRGAGQPND 0 70 lync-file-transfer
8000000 ALPRGAGQPND 0 80 lync-file-transfer
9000000 ALPRGAGQPND 0 90 lync-file-transfer
1511979610000 ALPRGAGQPND 0 10 lync-file-transfer <<< timestamp starts Nov 29 2017 6:20pm
1511979620000 ALPRGAGQPND 0 20 lync-file-transfer
1511979630000 ALPRGAGQPND 0 30 lync-file-transfer
1511979640000 ALPRGAGQPND 0 40 lync-file-transfer
1511979650000 ALPRGAGQPND 0 50 lync-file-transfer
1511979660000 ALPRGAGQPND 0 60 lync-file-transfer
1511979670000 ALPRGAGQPND 0 70 lync-file-transfer
1511979680000 ALPRGAGQPND 0 80 lync-file-transfer
1511979690000 ALPRGAGQPND 0 90 lync-file-transfer
- Now go to Grafana and look for the data points (see slide 1 for output). Result “No data points”.
- Run query manually from Query Inspector (nothing is returned)
SELECT “p2p-duration-value” FROM “P2P” WHERE (“Nodename” = ‘ALPRGAGQPND’ AND “p2p-protocol” = ‘lync-file-transfer’) AND time >= 1511917026000ms and time <= 1511999826000ms
- Run same query but removing “ms” from timestamps
SELECT “p2p-duration-value” FROM “P2P” WHERE (“Nodename” = ‘ALPRGAGQPND’ AND “p2p-protocol” = ‘lync-file-transfer’) AND time >= 1511917026000 and time <= 1511999826000
name: P2P
time p2p-duration-value
1511979610000 10
1511979620000 20
1511979630000 30
1511979640000 40
1511979650000 50
1511979660000 60
1511979670000 70
1511979680000 80
1511979690000 90
- Influx version
[admin@httstools ~]$ influx -version
InfluxDB shell version: 1.4.2
- Grafana version
[admin@httstools ~]$ grafana-server -v
Version 4.6.2 (commit: 8db5f08)
I’m hoping that will be enough for you to reproduce. If with all that you still can’t reproduce then maybe there is something wrong with my installation?
Thank you,
Dan Musca
Cisco High Touch Technical Support
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