Installing Graphite-Web with ATSD Storage Finder

Using this guide you can install Graphite-Web to include Carbon daemons, Whisper databases, and ATSD Storage Finders.

Install dependencies:

sudo apt-get install\
 python-cairo-dev\
 python-dev\
 fontconfig\
 python-fontconfig\
 apache2\
 libapache2-mod-wsgi\
 memcached\
 python-ldap\
 rabbitmq-server\
 rrdtool\
 python-rrdtool\
 apache2-utils\
 libapache2-mod-python\
 sqlite3\
 python-pysqlite2\
 python-pip

sudo pip install\
 django\
 django-tagging\
 twisted\
 zope.interface\
 pytz\
 python-memcached\
 txAMQP\
 pyparsing

Install Graphite Carbon and Whisper:

sudo pip install https://github.com/graphite-project/carbon/archive/master.zip

sudo pip install https://github.com/graphite-project/whisper/archive/master.zip

Install ATSD Storage Finder:

sudo pip install https://github.com/axibase/atsd-graphite-finder/archive/master.zip

Install Graphite-Web with atsd_finder:

sudo pip install https://github.com/axibase/graphite-web/archive/atsd_storage.zip

Configure Graphite:

You can find example files in the /opt/graphite/conf directory.

cd /opt/graphite/conf

sudo cp carbon.conf.example carbon.conf

sudo cp storage-schemas.conf.example storage-schemas.conf

sudo cp graphite.wsgi.example /opt/graphite/conf/graphite.wsgi

Create local_settings.py:

cd /opt/graphite/webapp/graphite

sudo cp local_settings.py.example local_settings.py

In local_settings.py change the SECRET_KEY setting to a random number.

Configure your finders:

In the local_settings.py file specify the storage finders, ATSD hostname/IP, ATSD port, ATSD username, and ATSD password (as described here):

STORAGE_FINDERS = (
    'atsd_finder.AtsdFinder',
    'atsd_finder.AtsdFinderV',
    'graphite.finders.standard.StandardFinder',
)

ATSD_CONF = {
    'url': 'http://atsd_hostname:8088',
    'username': 'username',
    'password': 'password',
}

Configure Apache2 wsgi:

cd /opt/graphite/examples

sudo cp example-graphite-vhost.conf /etc/apache2/sites-available/graphite-web.conf

Disable default site configuration:

sudo a2dissite 000-default

Enable graphite-web site configuration:

sudo a2ensite graphite-web

Setup Django database schema:

sudo PYTHONPATH=/opt/graphite/webapp django-admin.py syncdb --settings=graphite.settings

Set Apache2 ownership for the storage directory:

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /opt/graphite/storage/

Restart Apache2:

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload

Web interface is now be available on local port 80. ATSD metrics are also be visible.

Run carbon-cache:

cd /opt/graphite/bin

sudo python carbon-cache.py start

Within a few minutes carbon metrics are visible in the web interface.

# Installing Graphite-Web with ATSD Storage Finder

Installing Graphite-Web with ATSD Storage Finder