Guide to getting Graphite up and running

Sparkum

Hey guys.

Trying to get graphite and and running on Ubuntu 14.04 however I am having a heck of a time.

Anyone have a guide that they've tested and confirmed it works?

I've (obviously) found a bunch of guides, follow them step by step, and install anything thats missing due to old guides etc; however, still not able to stand the server up.

Please and thank you guys!

scottalanmiller

This Graphite?

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-use-graphite-on-an-ubuntu-14-04-server

Sparkum

@scottalanmiller

Thats the one thanks!

Unless perhaps you have a different suggestion for dash boarding other than Graphite and Grafana

scottalanmiller

Grafana is pretty awesome. Let me ping the Grafan expert to see if he can help you out here.

scottalanmiller

And I'll ping his wife to make sure he looks at it. @nerdyfem4life

Sparkum

@scottalanmiller

Hmm last online 12 months ago,

Technomancer

I'm here.

Don't use Graphite. It scales poorly, is a pain in the ass to deal with via all the carbon options, etc.

Use cassabon as your carbon listener and storage: https://github.com/jeffpierce/cassabon
Use graphite-api with the cyanite-reader plugin to handle Grafana's requests: https://github.com/brutasse/graphite-api
Use Grafana to render your graphs/dashboards: http://grafana.org/

Sparkum

@Technomancer

Awesome thanks,

Looks like I've got alot more reading and googling to do.

scottalanmiller

For those wondering.... @Technomancer is the author of Cassabon.

Technomancer

I gave a talk about the stats setup I'm talking about here (just replace mentions of Cyanite with Cassabon): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yErya52xTw

Slide deck is at https://speakerdeck.com/technomancer/devops-days-2015-tel-aviv-real-time-metrics-and-distributed-monitoring.

scottalanmiller

@Technomancer a walkthrough on building a Grafana / Cassabon system on CentOS 7 would be pretty sweet. A lot of people here would love to get that set up. Just a simple single system setup is all that is really needed. Most everyone, not all but most, are in small environments so a single VM handling all of this would be the common use case.