# CACTI not showing Wowza graphs
**URL:** https://community.wowza.com/t/cacti-not-showing-wowza-graphs/34524
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine
**Created:** [May 14, 2010, 4:16pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/cacti-not-showing-wowza-graphs/34524 "2010-05-14T16:16:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Michel\_Croibier](https://community.wowza.com/u/Michel_Croibier)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2010, 4:16pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/cacti-not-showing-wowza-graphs/34524/1 "2010-05-14T16:16:39Z")
Hi,
This is for sure a beginner question…
I setup Cacti and now I can see the network and system graphs in the tree.
However nothing shows up in the Wowza leaf…
I am using ami-fd674d89 without any modifications.
Any help appreciated.
Thanks
Regards
Michel
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2010, 3:23pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/cacti-not-showing-wowza-graphs/34524/2 "2010-05-14T15:23:39Z")
Is there any activity through Wowza as you look? Try streaming a video from that instance with SimpleVideoStreaming or some other example.
Richard
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2010, 3:30pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/cacti-not-showing-wowza-graphs/34524/3 "2010-05-14T15:30:45Z")
I think it takes some time, possibly 15 minutes or so, to start to show.
Richard
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2010, 3:41pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/cacti-not-showing-wowza-graphs/34524/4 "2010-05-14T15:41:15Z")
Okay, let me give it a spin. I’ll post back.
Richard
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2010, 8:22pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/cacti-not-showing-wowza-graphs/34524/5 "2010-05-14T20:22:31Z")
Did you follow the setup setups in the Wowza EC2 guide. You have to uncheck a box and save. See the “Monitoring the Wowza Media Server on EC2 using Cacti” chapter.
1. On the “Management: Devices” page click the “Localhost” device in the “Description” column.
2. Uncheck the “Disable Host” setting in the “General Host Options” section of the page. Then click the “Save” button at the bottom of the page.
Then wait 60 seconds to start seeing graphs.
Richard
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2010, 10:55am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/cacti-not-showing-wowza-graphs/34524/6 "2010-05-18T10:55:05Z")
It does seem like something is wrong. Can you try launching another instance?
Richard
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2010, 11:58am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/cacti-not-showing-wowza-graphs/34524/7 "2010-05-18T11:58:18Z")
Use the most recent AMI
[https://www.wowza.com/ec2support.html](https://www.wowza.com/ec2support.html)
Ricard
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2010, 1:38pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/cacti-not-showing-wowza-graphs/34524/8 "2010-05-30T13:38:05Z")
If you just started a new instance and anything is not working right the best thing to do is to terminate it and start another one.
Richard
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2010, 9:20pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/cacti-not-showing-wowza-graphs/34524/9 "2010-05-30T21:20:35Z")
I tried it recently with us-east-1 small instance and had no problem. Will have to get back to you about this.
Richard
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2010, 4:48pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/cacti-not-showing-wowza-graphs/34524/10 "2010-06-01T16:48:02Z")
I tried it with that same AMI and it worked for me. Are you sure you are following the steps to enable in the EC2 guide? I guess it could be bad luck with 2 instances in a row, but I cannot replicate the problem.
Richard
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2010, 12:36pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/cacti-not-showing-wowza-graphs/34524/11 "2010-07-11T12:36:09Z")
Take a look at the “Adding Additional Wowza Server Graphs” chapter of the Wowza EC2 User Guide.
[https://www.wowza.com/resources/WowzaMediaServerForEC2\_UsersGuide.pdf](https://www.wowza.com/resources/WowzaMediaServerForEC2_UsersGuide.pdf)
Richard
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2011, 1:48pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/cacti-not-showing-wowza-graphs/34524/12 "2011-11-22T13:48:48Z")
Anatoly,
Here it is:
[https://www.wowza.com/resources/WowzaMediaServerForEC2-2.2.4\_UsersGuide.pdf](https://www.wowza.com/resources/WowzaMediaServerForEC2-2.2.4_UsersGuide.pdf)
Richard
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.wowza.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2010, 11:35am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/cacti-not-showing-wowza-graphs/34524/13 "2010-06-01T11:35:14Z")
Hi Esso74,
I fired up a new instance this morning and Cacti detected and graphed RTSP live streams fine. Please send an email with the details of what you’re seeing to support@wowza.com and we’ll get things sorted out.
-Craig
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.wowza.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2010, 9:19am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/cacti-not-showing-wowza-graphs/34524/14 "2010-06-16T09:19:13Z")
I tested the EU-Instances and Cacti is graphing correctly for me.
There are two common issues when using Cacti to watch out for. One is that the Cacti system checks for connections once every 60 seconds or so. If you watch 45 seconds of a stream then stop the system may not log you as a viewer. The second is the graphing time range is not good about reseting to the current time. If you load the graph page and select ‘last half hour’ as your time frame it loads the current time and last half hour. But if you go to lunch and come back, even if you refresh the page the system will still have the old ‘half-hour’ times loaded. In these cases you must manually set the time frame you wish to view.
-Craig
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Huckaby](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Huckaby)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2010, 11:04pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/cacti-not-showing-wowza-graphs/34524/15 "2010-07-10T23:04:20Z")
All seems well with Cacti monitoring on my EC2 instance and we have a couple of streams running 24/7 but no streams show up in the graph Localhost - Wowza Server - Stream ([name]) Connections. All client and server connections show up fine.
Is this graph template expected to automatically graph all current streams and substitute the field name automatically or is there a manual substitution?
If manual please explain procedure. I would like to monitor activity stream by stream.
Thx
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Huckaby](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Huckaby)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2010, 8:49pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/cacti-not-showing-wowza-graphs/34524/16 "2010-07-13T20:49:39Z")
Thanks perfect…works now…should have read further to start with
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### Author:  [@Jimmy\_Escherich](https://community.wowza.com/u/Jimmy_Escherich)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2010, 11:30am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/cacti-not-showing-wowza-graphs/34524/17 "2010-05-30T11:30:11Z")
I have the exact same issue.
AIM: ami-f7200a83
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### Author:  [@Jimmy\_Escherich](https://community.wowza.com/u/Jimmy_Escherich)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2010, 9:59pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/cacti-not-showing-wowza-graphs/34524/18 "2010-05-30T21:59:24Z")
I have just terminated it, and started a new one. Same problem again.
I have removed the “Disable Host” checkmark.
I am livestreaming to the “live” application.
The network and System Graphs are fine, but the “Wowza media server” graphs does not show anything.
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### Author:  [@Michel\_Croibier](https://community.wowza.com/u/Michel_Croibier)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2010, 4:26pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/cacti-not-showing-wowza-graphs/34524/19 "2010-05-14T16:26:09Z")
Yes, I have a live stream running, I can connect to it with the sample player provided.
I can also see the connections in http://[SERVER\_IP]:8086/connectioncounts
but no graphs in the Wowza server section of Cacti…
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### Author:  [@Michel\_Croibier](https://community.wowza.com/u/Michel_Croibier)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2010, 4:32pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/cacti-not-showing-wowza-graphs/34524/20 "2010-05-14T16:32:16Z")
It’s been running now for 4 hours…
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