line graph in the terminal with gnuplot

Jan 29, 2024

I wrote a command that outputs data in tabular format, looking like this:

$ rb services metrics app-prod | head time memory cpu 2024-01-29T07:19:00Z 191668346880 39688 2024-01-29T07:20:00Z 191886577664 39953 2024-01-29T07:21:00Z 191411822592 38933 2024-01-29T07:22:00Z 190887628800 38824 2024-01-29T07:23:00Z 192347156480 39501

I wanted to print the CPU column to the terminal with a nice line graph. Here's where I ended up:

rb services metrics app-prod | gnuplot -e ' set terminal pngcairo size 2048,768; set datafile separator " "; set xdata time; set timefmt "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S"; set format x "%Y-%m-%d\n%H:%M:%S"; plot "<cat" using 1:($3/1000) notitle with lines' | icat --align left

and here's what it looks like:

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