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5:15 PM
Quick q, could someone explain why/point me to further reading why network monitoring uses the derivative of values? I setup a monitoring/graphing solution on a personal server and I just figured out how to sum total bandwidth after inspecting existing graphs, but I just don't understand why derivatives are required to get the actual values
 

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