Henrik,
Would it be possible to add support for other rrdtool create options in the rrddefinitions.cfg file?
I'd like to be able to specify a different step for certain tests. Like
[http] --step 60 RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1:1440 RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:5:576 RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:30:576 RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:120:576 RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1440:576
This would let me zoom in on the graph down to the minute which helps in quickly identifying when problems start and you have to dig through mountains of logs for the precise moment, also I've found when using drraw to create aggregated graphs for dashboards it gives it more of an up to the minute view of your systems rather then a 5 minute lag time.
I use to do this by creating the rrds manually on the 4.2.x code base, but it would be great if I could just specify it in the rrddefinitions.cfg. The rrd step is just one of those items you can't tune after its been created without dumping to xml first, creating a new rrd container, then importing the data back.
-- Brian Majeska