What

This is a automated installation of graphite (with whisper and carbon) + statsd on ubuntu 12.04

The automation uses puppet and the class files can be changed/adapted for your installation

How

To run this installation just:

• clone the project:

    git clone https://github.com/bcap/statsd-install.git && cd statsd-install
  

• install vagrant if not installed or get a release at the vagrant site. Vagrant is a VirtualBox automation framework. Lots of fun!:

    gem install vagrant 
  

• run the vm

    vagrant up
  

• access localhost:8080 for the graphs

• push data directly into carbon/graphite by localhost:2003. Example:

    # set a metric called test.somemetic to value 100
    echo "test.somemetric 100 `date +%s`" | nc localhost 2003
  

• push data directly into statsd by localhost:8125. Example:

    # increase the test counter by 10
    echo -n "test:10|c" | nc -u localhost 8125
  

Why

Graphite in its current state involves a lot of manual work to install. As this forms a major barrier, automating the whole installation is a good idea.

This is a fork from a project that already did this, but it used 2 custom created deb files with no source code for generating them. Creating custom packages involves an extra effort on maintaining them. For this reason I wanted to avoid custom packages and created a fork where all the installation is done using packages from official sources

Who

Fork chain/credits:

this project <- liuggio's vagrant-statsd-graphite-puppet <- Jimdo's vagrant-statsd-graphite-puppet

What else

• Refactor the puppet classes a little more so a module can be submited to puppet forge