Data Point

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Data Point

By default, the management console averages data over preset intervals to produce data points. For each time interval used to average data, the management console calculates a representative data point and shows this data in a chart or table. Each chart and table reports the time period used to calculate each data point.

For views that use the time periods in the following table, the management console averages data using the following intervals:

Time Period	Interval
Last hour	5 minutes
Last 8 hours	5 minutes
Last day	15 minutes
Last week	1 hour
Last month	6 hours

Configure reporting of data points as follows:

Use shorter averaging intervals to analyze specific problems.
Use longer averaging intervals to identify patterns and trends over time.

The following views show the transition of granular data points to curves used for trending and pattern identification as the averaging interval increases from 5 minutes to 1 hour.

Example of reporting data averaged over a 5-minute interval.

Example of reporting data averaged over a 30-minute interval.

Example of reporting data averaged over a 1-hour interval.