Comment 6 for bug 886411

I'll note for those watching this that a way to get some of the behavior wanted here is to play with the minXStep parameter which is now documented here: http://readthedocs.org/docs/graphite/en/0.9.x/render_api.html#minxstep

If you reduce this to zero, *every* point will be drawn - the disadvantage is that they will be drawn so close together that the graph lines will be smooshed (for lack of a better word) together. This can be somewhat compensated for by reducing the lineWidth.

This doesn't solve the issue Nick refers to though caused by the behavior of Whisper where in the case of multiple retentions it will return only the first retention that completely satisfies the requested time - that is, if you have 1secondly data for a day and minutely afterwards, if you draw a 1-week graph you'll only get the minutely data returned.