Graphite graphs are very helpful in their default form, even though they simply reflect the data they can access. One of the less obvious features that Graphite offers is data transformation. Graphite has several choices for line and background colors, legend names, and so on. We can calculate moving averages, standard deviations, and logs.
There is a lot of extra functionality available in Graphite, and only exploration will truly unveil much of it. We'll introduce a few basic examples in this recipe.