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Re: [Question #199282]: Removing spikes from Graphite due to erroneous data.

 

I've used whisper-dump.py (installed with whisper in your bin path) to dump
the timestamp of the errored value, then simply sent a new value to that
timestamp.

On Sunday, June 3, 2012, Chris Portman wrote:

> New question #199282 on Graphite:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/graphite/+question/199282
>
> Hi All,
>
> I've been looking around and haven't been able to find an answer thus far,
> I was wondering if there is a way to remove erroneous data from a whisper
> DB file that is causing artificial spikes in the graphs (the sort of spikes
> that distorts the graph to the point, valid data is so small in comparison
> that it isn't visible rendering the graph pretty much useless).  Id like to
> preserve the valid data, so would like to avoid simply deleting the metrics
> DB and starting from scratch.
>
> Any pointers would be greatly appreciated!!
>
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
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