On 6/20/2017 1:27 AM, Pete Biggs wrote:
I can figure out some simple scripting to turn the maillog entries into times since the epoch, or other formats, if needed, but I have no experience with the various graphing tools availabe, or even what (or where) they are.
If you are talking about scripting graphs, then Gnuplot is what you need - it's in the core centos distro I think.
If you want a dedicated gui graphing application, then you can't go far wrong with Grace - it's in EPEL. I've used it for producing publication quality plots but it's equally capable of dealing with everyday graphing. The native save file format is simple and plain text, so it's quite easy to generate the files using a script which can then be read straight in to grace and will have correct axes, lables, etc.
another tool i've used for creating various sorts of graphs is Gnu Octave. this is a matlab replacement, and if you can import a bunch of numbers, you can graph them 8 ways from sideways.