GoOpen 2009 RRDtool - how to make it sit up and beg ======================================= A 40 minute Talk by Tobias Oetiker There are many tools that let you monitor systems and networks these days. Most of the time, when you look under their hood, you find RRDtool at work in storing data and drawing pretty graphs. In this talk I will give some insight into how RRDtool works. This will enable you to optimize the way your monitoring software utilizes RRDtool. I will also talk about the latest features in RRDtool and how they will help you to scale RRDtool performance way up without breaking the bank.