Plotting response time from Apache Bench..

example.gnuplot

# define output file as variable (with default)
if (!exists("outfile")) outfile='output.png'

# define input file as variable (with default)
if (!exists("infile")) infile='values.tsv'

# set output format & size
set terminal png size 1024,768 crop

# set output filename (see 'outfile' variable)
set output outfile

# graph title
set title "My results"

# set aspect ratio
set size 1,0.75

# y-axis (grid + label)
set grid y
set ylabel "Response time \(ms\)"

# x-axis (label only)
set xlabel "Time"

# y-axis range
set yrange [0:500]

# x-series will base off time
set xdata time

# x-series time *input* format (seconds)
set timefmt "%s"

# x-series time *output* format for tic marks
set format x ""

# point size
set pointsize 2

# plot data (using 'infile' variable)
# ::2 will skip the header (line 1)
plot "/work/".infile every ::2 using 6:9 smooth sbezier with lines title "x"

Data was generated w/ ab -c 1 -n 5000 -t 10 -g input.tsv http://127.0.0.1:7777/