This project provides a simple demonstration of Collectd, Graphite, and Grafana.
Use vagrant up --provider=libvirt to start the VM.
Provisioning will take a few minutes as packages are installed and configured.
The provision script seeds your Graphite database with some data:
- some raw data is sent to Graphite via
echo "test.count 4date +%s" | nc -q0 127.0.0.1 2003. - collectd gathers Apached stats, which are also reported at http://localhost:8080/server-status
The Graphite UI is at http://localhost:8080/ or http://192.168.33.10. The username/password is admin/admin.
You can click on metrics in the Graphite navigation tree review the graphing options. See the section "Checking out the Web Interface") in this tutorial for more information.
Grafana is at http://192.168.33.10:3000/. The username/password is admin/admin.
You have to configure Grafana to use Graphite as a data source. Click the Grafana icon (top left corner) and click Data Sources, and Add New. Set the name as local_graphite, set as Default, type Graphite. The URL is http://192.168.33.10, access proxy, no HTTP auth.
Save this, and click "Test Connection" to verify.
Once this is verified, you can start building your first dashboard.
Since provisioning the box from scratch takes time, you may prefer to
vagrant suspend the box when you're done using it. You can then
vagrant resume the box.
To destroy the box completely, use vagrant destroy. Note that if
you destroy the box, any manual configuration you've done, such as
creating Grafana or Graphite graphs, is lost.
- The initial configuration for this demo was done following this example
- If you're new to Grafana, you may find this Grafana screencast for beginners helpful.