Installing graphite (or not as the case may be!)

My misadventures in installing graphite so I could measure all the things. Presented on June 10, 2014 at B'more on Rails.

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1. How  to  install   graphite   (or  not,  as  the  case  may  be…)     Doug  Price   @solipet   June  10,  2014  
2. Don’t  know  how?  
3. Digital  Ocean  Tutorials  
4. Let’s  get  started!   •  Spin  up  a  clean  VM  on  AWS   •  Follow  the  direcOons   •  Everything  will  work   •  CelebraOon!  
5. Set  up  the  VM  on  AWS  
6. Set  up  the  VM  on  AWS  (cont.)  
7. Get  the  VM  Details  
8. Login   Add  the  machine   to  our  ssh  config…   …  then  ssh  to  it.  
9. Install  all  the  needed  packages   Um…     It  was  just  supposed  to  …  work!  
10. A  newer  version  of  Python!  
11. Try  again…   Yay!    It  worked!     Keep  going…  
12. More  installs!   All  prerequisites   are  done!      Yay!  
13. Download  graphite…   $  wget  h^ps://launchpad.net/graphite/0.9/0.9.10/+download/graphite-­‐web-­‐0.9.10.tar.gz   $  wget  h^ps://launchpad.net/graphite/0.9/0.9.10/+download/carbon-­‐0.9.10.tar.gz   $  wget  h^ps://launchpad.net/graphite/0.9/0.9.10/+download/whisper-­‐0.9.10.tar.gz     $  find  *.tar.gz  -­‐exec  tar  -­‐zxvf  '{}'  \;     $  cd  whisper*   $  sudo  python  setup.py  install   $  cd  ../carbon*   $  sudo  python  setup.py  install   $  cd  ../graphite*   $  sudo  python  check-­‐dependencies.py   All  necessary  dependencies  are  met.   All  opOonal  dependencies  are  met.   All  dependencies   are  met!      W00t!  
14. Configure  Graphite   $  cd  /opt/graphite/conf   $  sudo  cp  carbon.conf.example  carbon.conf   $  sudo  nano  storage-­‐schemas.conf     #  Add  the  following:   [stats]   priority  =  110   pa^ern  =  .*   retenOons  =  10:2160,60:10080,600:262974     $  cd  /opt/graphite/webapp/graphite/   $  sudo  python  manage.py  syncdb   WHA??!  
15. The  wrong  version  of  Django??   •  Deprecated  in  1.4     $  apt-­‐cache  show  python-­‐django  |  grep  -­‐i  version   Version:  1.6.1-­‐2ubuntu0.3   Version:  1.6.1-­‐2  
16. Downgrade  Django??   •  Seems  like  a  bad  idea…  
17. pip?   $  sudo  apt-­‐get  install  python-­‐pip   Ok…  but  will  it  work?  
18. No!  
19. So…  what  happened?   Did  you  happen  to  noOce?  
20. StarOng  at  the  beginning  
21. Digital  Ocean  Tutorials  
22. Just  go  follow  their  instrucOons..   h^ps://www.digitalocean.com/community/ tutorials/how-­‐to-­‐install-­‐and-­‐use-­‐graphite-­‐on-­‐an-­‐ ubuntu-­‐14-­‐04-­‐server     $  sudo  apt-­‐get  install  graphite-­‐web  graphite-­‐carbon     That’s  it.    It’s  installed!   They  walk  you  through  some  basic  configuraOon…     Took  me  ~20  to  launch  a  VM,  install,  configure  and  have  it  running,   while  enjoying  a  beer!    J  
23.   I  menOoned:     The  blog  I  was  going  to  follow…   h^p://ma^.aimonew.net/posts/2013/06/26/pracOcal-­‐guide-­‐to-­‐graphite-­‐ monitoring/     The  gem  I  ended  up  using…   h^ps://github.com/jnunemaker/nunes       Thanks!