Graph averaging over a period of time

[daniellee]

Are you using Graphite? Then read this explanation on how to write your query to be able to zoom out and show accurate results:

Y Axis values change depending on time range

It appears that you have a series that is being stored every minute, and every now and then the value stored is incremented by one. On the “zoomed in” graph, you have a period of roughly 5 hours or 300 minutes, so graphite returns 300 points at one-minute intervals and you get the graph you expect. When you zoom out, you’re now looking at a period of roughly 24 hours or 1200 minutes. Grafana can’t show more points than you have pixels on the graph (in this case roughly 1000) so with every req…