Help with dashboard/data type (snmp counter / "gauge" metric) | Archive

Preston_Gallwas · 2019-04-01T00:21:45Z

Hello, I'm currently looking to create a dashboard to show a representation of hits on a counter that are collected as "gauge" (specifically, this value is from SNMP and should only increase as it is "TotalPolicyHits"). However, I'm looking for a meaningful way to represent this total on a dashboard. Currently we have 4 principal things we're looking to visualize: Whitelisted IP hits, Blacklisted IP hits, "friendly location" IP hits, "Unfriendly location" IP hits. In terms of data, "friendly" location is a huge number relative to the others (~14x more than the next number). I was wondering what options may look the best for visualizing this. I had the idea that it may be better to instead to represent the data as a rate (i.e. 80% of the hits are from the friendly policy, 10% from unfriendly, 5% from whitelist, 5% from blacklist) over the last interval. However the current counter is stored as a gauge and comes from SNMP as counter. I've looked over the documentation and am unclear if I need to add another datapoint as 'derive' which will recalculate that for me, or if I need to do math to represent it. Since these are "Total" values that will only increase, is there a way I can do the math to calculate CurrentReading - LastReading to get the difference? I didn't see anything like that in the Datapoint expressions page. Any advice you can give would be appreciated.

MoreDiscussions

Help with dashboard/data type (snmp counter / "gauge" metric) | Archive | LogicMonitor Community