Dashboard total queries fluctuate +- ~2k every 30min

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Expected Behaviour:

Dashboard stats, specifically "Total queries", to count continuously until reset at midnight (every 24hrs).

Actual Behaviour:

My dashboards "Total queries" seems to go up and down between 8k and 11k every 30-60 minutes. From what I have observers it never drops below 8k and never exceeds 11k.

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Additional Info

If it matters at all, I am running this in Docker. I am confident I have my volumes mapped correctly. Not that I do it often, but I noticed when stopping the container and starting it the total queries seems to reset to around ~10k.

This is not the way Pi-Hole is configured. The dashboard shows the most previous running 24 hours of data (Queries over last 24 hours), and does not reset at midnight. The fluctuation you are seeing is where a previous high or low activity period rolls out of the 24 hour window and is replaced with more recent data.

A relatively extreme example of this is shown in the screen snap below. This Pi-Hole serves two clients, one of which is normally sleeping and the other which was turned off last night. There is zero activity shown for about 9 hours, and this is reflected in the total. As the high activity occurs this morning, the low activity from yesterday morning will be replaced and the total queries will increase. Eventually, if the computer is left on, the zero period will exit to the left and the total queries will be at a maximum.

@jfb This makes perfect sense. I had searched around for when and how the stats are kept and found some info, albeit incorrect. Thank you.

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