Graphite graphs are very helpful in their default form, even though it simply reflects the data it can access. One of the less obvious features that Graphite offers is data transformation. Graphite has several choices for line and background colors, legend names, and so on. We can calculate moving averages, standard deviations, and logs.
There is a lot of extra functionality available in Graphite, and only exploration will truly unveil much of it. We'll introduce a few basic examples in this recipe.
In this recipe, we will be combining the results of all the previous recipes related to collectd and Graphite. We recommend that you have a functional monitor server configured, as discussed in those recipes.