Tag Archives: Graphite

collectd – Cannot send out matrics

collectd is a statistics gathering tools which helps system admin to analysis the system conditions. It includes both server and client implementations. The collectd client send metrics to the collectd server.

 

I installed the collectd on a CentOS 7 machine and try to send the metrics to a Graphite instance. But no matter how i changed the setup, the Graphite couldn’t receive any data. Finally, i realized that it is blocked by the SELinux policy.
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StatsD – Installation and integration with Graphite

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Compared to Graphite, installing StatsD server is just a piece of cake.

1. Install Node.js. For better management on Node.js, you could consider using nvm.

 

2. Checkout the StatsD project on GitHub.

git clone https://github.com/etsy/statsd.git

 

3. Copy the exampleConfig.js and name it to whatever you like and edit it as follow.
ex. statsdConfig.js.

{
  graphitePort: 2003
, graphiteHost: "<graphite host>"
, port: 8125
, backends: [ "./backends/graphite", "./backends/console" ] // console is for debug
, debug: true // For debug
, graphite: { legacyNamespace: false } // Better group all collected metrics under stats
}

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Install Graphite under pyenv virtualenv on Ubuntu

It took me one and an half day to get the Graphite working…

1. Make sure you have pyenv and pyenv-virtualenv installed.

 

2. Install the following packages.

sudo apt-get install python-dev pkg-config libcairo2-dev memcached

 

3. Install Python 2.7 with enable-shared.

env PYTHON_CONFIGURE_OPTS="--enable-shared" pyenv install 2.7.8

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