{"id":11041,"date":"2020-05-24T17:08:48","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T16:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?p=11041"},"modified":"2020-05-24T17:09:12","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T16:09:12","slug":"prtg-graphs-and-the-alternatives-to-just-displaying-the-average","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?p=11041","title":{"rendered":"PRTG, Graphs and the alternatives to just displaying the average"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The default graph options in PRTG (Setup &gt; System Administration &gt; User Interface) for extended periods of time (e.g. over 10 days) will display the average over a set period (e.g. 1 hour) &#8211; while this may be ideal for some data on occasion you may want to display the maximum or minimum value for the data over that period.<\/p>\n<p>The example below shows just how much this can change the graphical representation of the data with the &#8216;max&#8217; value when averaged as 48% while this climbs all the way to 53% when the graph purely displays the maximum values.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11042\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11042\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11042\" src=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/1.png\" alt=\"It's the same data but the top graph shows a 1 hour average whereas the bottom graph shows the 1 hour maximum.\" width=\"500\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/1.png 975w, https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/1-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/1-768x480.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11042\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It&#8217;s the same data but the top graph shows a 1 hour average whereas the bottom graph shows the 1 hour maximum.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>To change this display of data hop into the channel settings for the sensor and follow the screenshot guide below:<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The default graph options in PRTG (Setup &gt; System Administration &gt; User Interface) for extended periods of time (e.g. over 10 days) will display the average over a set period (e.g. 1 hour) &#8211; while this may be ideal for some data on occasion you may want to display the maximum or minimum value for the data over that period&#8230;. <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?p=11041\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[197],"series":[],"class_list":["post-11041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-prtg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11041"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11051,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11041\/revisions\/11051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11041"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=11041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}