Disable carbon cache

[nickwales]

If I want a relay tier without the cache daemons running is there a way to do this?

[dwerder]

Sorry for the late answer. Yes, it is possible, but this module would be a little bit oversized for that purpose.

Look at:

# [*gr_enable_carbon_relay*]
#   Enable carbon relay.
#   Default is false.
# [*gr_relay_line_interface*]
#   Default is '0.0.0.0'
# [*gr_relay_line_port*]
#   Default is 2013.
# [*gr_relay_pickle_interface*]
#   Default is '0.0.0.0'
# [*gr_relay_pickle_port*]
#   Default is 2014.
# [*gr_relay_method*]
#   Default is 'rules'
# [*gr_relay_replication_factor*]
#   add redundancy by replicating every datapoint to more than one machine.
#   Default is 1.
# [*gr_relay_destinations*]
#   Array of backend carbons for relay.
#   Default  is [ '127.0.0.1:2004' ]

Specially at gr_relay_destination. But the module will still install the whole graphite environment and also start carbon, even it is not used.

So the answer is: yes! But you can not enable only the relay daemon.