Charting volume data

If you use PRTG's SNMP Traffic or WMI Traffic sensors then you already get speed and volume. If you want e.g. KByte/h instead of kbit/s you can change the Channel Unit in the sensor settings (at the very bottom, uncheck "Inherit Channel Unit Configuration" and select the desired unit).

Thanks for the answer, sorry for not being clear enough.

I am looking to chart the values in the Traffic Total (volume) column in the tables over the sampling interval periods. For example: at 5:00 PM 10 MByte of volume, at 5:05 PM 20 MByte volume.

I am trying to plot the volume values, not the speed values.

Hello,

I'm afraid Volume-values cannot be graphed.

Best Regards.

This is a fairly common requirement. Why the fairly arbitrary restriction? it certainly limits the usefulness of an otherwise flexible tool.

I was just trying to figure this out myself. A volume graph would be much more valuable to me than a speed graph.

Hallo,

the volume graph is already there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_calculus

please define what exactly it is you want to be displayed

Integral Calculus?

I want the same thing the OP wants, the Volume data to be displayed on the graph instead of the Speed data. I want to be able to look at the graph and see the Amount of data (KBytes), not the (kbits/s). For my application, I want/need to see the raw amount of data being transferred. When you pull up a bandwidth sensor you can see the Volume of data listed, but you can't have them display on the graph.

Torsten Lindner says this can't be done though.

It'd be a great option to add in a future update.

Hallo,

how do you want to draw that graph???? How do you want this to look like? The volume is already there. It is the area underneath the speed line! And you would use integral calculus to calculate that.

Please, to every one who is asking to show the volume instead of the speed in a sensor, please sit down and try to draw it on a peace of paper and then send it to us.

All right, I tried my best creating an image using mspaint and a screenshot.

I uploaded it here:

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/20/prtg1.png/

As you'll see, the Columns outlined in Red are what are currently plotted on your graphs. I want the data in the Blue outlined columns to be plotted on the graph instead of the Red data, as depicted in the graph I made. The graph would look the same as it does now, the only difference is the data being plotted is pulled from the Blue outlined areas instead of the Red.

Sorry to dig up the past, This would be useful for the circumstance where monitoring pages printed from a printer.

It would be more useful for me to see number of pages at each snapshot rather then 0.01 / s

Seems like it could be added as a feature for such occurrences

Cheers Scobber

It appears as though this was never addressed. I see that volume is visible in a graph, but no option for viewing it in a gauge. Are there plans to address this? My use case is an EXE sensor that tracks gallons/ day.

Hi there, at the moment we don't implement new features in our current UI since a new one is in development (alpha is already released). If you want that a certain feature is implemented and there is no feature request yet, you can create one according to this article: https://kb.paessler.com/en/topic/79245-how-can-i-propose-new-features-or-sensors-for-prtg