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Hi Adam and Observium team:
We recently started having an issue with our Observium (20.9.10749) that the graphs for different devices would restart and all its previous history would be gone:
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And we usually see the following ‘messages’ under /var/log around that time:
Oct 18 05:07:13 sjc-observium-1 rrdcached[1495]: queue_thread_main: rrd_update_r (/opt/observium/rrd/atl-wan04/status.rrd) failed with status -1. (/opt/observium/rrd/atl-wan04/status.rrd: illegal attempt to update using time 1603020715 when last update time is 1603021928 (minimum one second step)) Oct 19 05:12:05 sjc-observium-1 rrdcached[14841]: queue_thread_main: rrd_update_r (/opt/observium/rrd/atl-wan04/status.rrd) failed with status -1. (/opt/observium/rrd/atl-wan04/status.rrd: illegal attempt to update using time 1603106221 when last update time is 1603108322 (minimum one second step)) Oct 20 05:32:47 sjc-observium-1 rrdcached[14471]: queue_thread_main: rrd_update_r (/opt/observium/rrd/atl-wan04/status.rrd) failed with status -1. (/opt/observium/rrd/atl-wan04/status.rrd: illegal attempt to update using time 1603194156 when last update time is 1603194737 (minimum one second step))
We have tried restarting the rrdcached process, and deleting the rrdcached files which are not updated for some time (with the command “find * -type f -mtime +5 -delete” under the rrd directory). But they don’t help much.
Do you have any suggestions how we can further investigate and troubleshoot this?
Thanks.
- Gordon