Graphite

Also see:

• Graphite/Old
• Graphite/Old2

Installing

Debian

See instructions here: https://graphite.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install-pip.html#installing-in-the-default-location

apt-get install python3-cffi

Graphite installs to /opt (a common location for databases), so ensure we have permission to create directories there:

sudo chown charles:root /opt/

Now install the three parts of graphite: whisper, carbon, and graphite-web:

pip3 install --user --no-binary=:all: https://github.com/graphite-project/whisper/tarball/master
pip3 install --user --no-binary=:all: https://github.com/graphite-project/carbon/tarball/master
pip3 install --user --no-binary=:all: https://github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web/tarball/master

Web app

Set up the web app to use a sqlite database: https://graphite.readthedocs.io/en/latest/config-database-setup.html

Documentation on setting up web app: https://graphite.readthedocs.io/en/latest/config-webapp.html#nginx-gunicorn

The Essentials

Get Data Into Graphite

Link: http://graphiteapp.org/quick-start-guides/feeding-metrics.html

Easy as using netcat:

$ echo "foo.bar 1 `date +%s`" | nc localhost 2003

Get Data Out Of Graphite

Link: http://graphiteapp.org/quick-start-guides/graphing-metrics.html

The web app is how you explore your metrics.

Grafana is how you soup things up and trick things out for dashboards.