Diamond is a Python daemon that collects system metrics and publishes them to Graphite. It is capable of collecting cpu, memory, network, I/O, load and disk metrics. Additionally, it features an API for implementing custom collectors for gathering metrics from almost any source.
jmxtrans is a powerful tool that performs JMX queries to collect metrics from Java applications. It is requires very little configuration and is capable of sending metric data to several backend applications, including Graphite.
statsd is a simple daemon for easy stats aggregation, developed by the folks at Etsy. A list of forks and alternative implementations can be found at <http://joemiller.me/2011/09/21/list-of-statsd-server-implementations/>
Ganglia is a scalable distributed monitoring system for high-performance computing systems such as clusters and Grids. It collects system performance metrics and stores them in RRD, but now there is an add-on that allows Ganglia to send metrics directly to Graphite. Further integration work is underway.
collectd is a daemon which collects system performance statistics periodically and provides mechanisms to store the values in a variety of ways, including RRD. To send collectd merics into carbon/graphite, use:
- Jordan Sissel's node collectd-to-graphite proxy
- Joe Miller's perl collectd-graphite plugin
- Gregory Szorc's python collectd-carbon plugin
- Scott Sanders's C collectd-write_graphite plugin
- Paul J. Davis's Bucky service
Graphite can also read directly from collectd's RRD files. RRD files can simply be added to STORAGE_DIR/rrd (as long as directory names and files do not contain any . characters). For example, collectd's host.name/load/load.rrd can be symlinked to rrd/collectd/host_name/load/load.rrd to graph collectd.host_name.load.load.{short,mid,long}term.
Logster is a utility for reading log files and generating metrics in Graphite or Ganglia. It is ideal for visualizing trends of events that are occurring in your application/system/error logs. For example, you might use logster to graph the number of occurrences of HTTP response code that appears in your web server logs.
Rocksteady is a system that ties together Graphite, RabbitMQ, and Esper. Developed by AdMob (who was then bought by Google), this was released by Google as open source (http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2010/09/get-ready-to-rocksteady.html).
Bucky is a small service implemented in Python for collecting and translating metrics for Graphite. It can current collect metric data from CollectD daemons and from StatsD clients.
Graphite-Tattle is a self-service dashboard frontend for Graphite and Ganglia.
Gdash is a simple Graphite dashboard built using Twitters Bootstrap driven by a small DSL.
Pencil is a monitoring frontend for graphite. It runs a webserver that dishes out pretty Graphite URLs in interesting and intuitive layouts.
Graphite-relay is a fast Graphite relay written in Scala with the Netty framework.
Scales is a Python server state and statistics library that can output its data to Graphite.
Graphiti is a powerful dashboard front end with a focus on ease of access, ease of recovery and ease of tweaking and manipulation.