How to design rrdtool base for traffic counts from web server logs?

Question

Bandwidth

Hello.
Let's simplify the task: there is data in the form "request_time(timestamp) bytes_send"
Task. from these data, build a graph for the load of the outgoing channel.
The main cant: step and heartbeat
That is: there can be both several requests per second, and the absence of requests for several minutes.
Question. how to get around the irregularity of data entry?
Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

As far as I remember, step does not limit the number of values ​​that can be entered within this step - inside the time is stored in unix timestamp. For heartbeat, you can set "U", after which it will no longer matter.