Introduction

Doing a talk at the Melbourne NodeJS meetup on "Nodejs in production" which demos some basic operational monitoring using off the shelf stuff.

Slides are at NodeJS in Production.

Setup

• Install influxdb.

brew install influxdb

• Fix configuration of influxdb by changing from rocksdb backend to leveldb.

vim /usr/local/etc/influxdb.conf

** Change line.

default-engine = "rocksdb"

** Too.

default-engine = "leveldb"

• Grab a copy of statsd.

git clone https://github.com/etsy/statsd

• Install the influxdb plugin.

cd statsd
 npm install statsd-influxdb-backend

• Use the following configuration file.

{
  port: 8125
, backends: [ "statsd-influxdb-backend" ]
, influxdb: {
    host: '127.0.0.1'
    , port: 8086
    , database: 'NodeJS'
    , username: 'root'
    , password: 'root'
  }
}

• Grab a copy of graphana.

git clone https://github.com/grafana/grafana

• Install my NodeJS dashboard.

cp NodeJS.json where/ever/graphana/app/dashboards

• Start all the things.

influxdb -config=/usr/local/etc/influxdb.conf &
cd Code/Javascript/statsd
node stats.js influxdbConfig.js &
cd Code/Javascript/grafana
python -m SimpleHTTPServer

Load up http://localhost:8000/#/dashboard/file/NodeJS.json.