Graphite

Links

• Web site
• The Graphite Docker repo

Install

1. Install Docker
2. Download the Graphite image to make sure it exists: sudo docker pull graphiteapp/graphite-statsd Technically it is not necessary because running a container will download an image, but better to separate two distinct tasks
3. Confirm that the image was downloaded: sudo docker images

Configure

• Default Port configuration

1. Configure router to allow inbound UDP packets to the Graphite StatsD port.

Run

1. Startup the Graphite container:

sudo docker run -d\
 --name graphite\
 --restart=always\
 -p 80:80\
 -p 2003-2004:2003-2004\
 -p 2023-2024:2023-2024\
 -p 8125:8125/udp\
 -p 8126:8126\
 graphiteapp/graphite-statsd

2. Confirm that it started up: sudo docker stats
3. Run the metrics load on Graphite server: while true; do echo -n "example:$((RANDOM % 100))|c" | nc -w 1 -u 127.0.0.1 8125; done
4. Check out the Graphite Web: http://<GRAPHITE_SERVER_IP>:80

Clean

1. Access the Graphite Docker container.
2. Navigate to the Graphite Whisper storage directory: cd /opt/graphite/storage/whisper
3. Remove unwanted metrics, they are usually under the statsd and statsd_count directories.
4. Restart the Graphite Docker container.