Can I use Geneos to estimate when a disk might fill up?

Having played with rule periods over the last few months I tried to see if I could do something interesting with those.  My first attempt was to use a history period and to get the min and max/current of this and calculate rate.  While this seemed to work at first I quickly realized this would only work if all of this was ever increasing.  I then thought that I could use the first value of a history period and the current value and use that for my rate.  Unfortunately the first function only works with Xpaths and not history periods.  Had a quick chat with Engineering and we came up with the following.

Use two history periods and get the average of each corresponding history period.  This should create a reasonable approximation of the growth as long as it is the data-set is reasonably linear.

The formula is then: 

rate =  ( avg(X) - avg(2X) ) /  (X/2)

It looks something like:

Example of semi-linear data and rate function using Microsoft excel compared to Geneos Rate Algo patent pending.

Note:  History periods requires that gateways retain these points in memory so I would recommend not going overboard with this.  Smaller history periods have less data.