Guide to getting Graphite up and running

scottalanmiller

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

Sparkum

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.