maxDataPoints was a feature added by the guy who wrote giraffe[1], which is for realtime dashboards from graphite. It was too slow until he added in the maxData

maxDataPoints was a feature added by the guy who wrote giraffe[1], which is for realtime dashboards from graphite. It was too slow until he added in the maxDataPoints feature, and now it is actually really awesome when setup properly. Also look at graphite-api[2], written by a very active graphite committer. It is api only (only json), but absolutely awesome stuff. Hook it up to grafana for a real winner. [1] http://giraffe.kenhub.com/#dashboard=Demo&timeFrame=1d http://giraffe.kenhub.com/#dashboard=Demo&timeFrame=1d [2] https://github.com/brutasse/graphite-api https://github.com/brutasse/graphite-api