March 2017
Intermediate to advanced
290 pages
7h 30m
English
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Chapter 4. Building Your First Graphite Server
I hope I haven’t scared you away with all of the mental preparation and cautionary mumbo jumbo. Graphite really is a fun and effective tool. But like any complex piece of machinery (or software), it takes an experienced operator to configure and maintain it for running at peak efficiency. The previous chapters should have imbued you with enough practical knowledge around the Graphite ecosystem to help you clear most hurdles head-on.
This chapter (finally) explains the recommended procedure for installing and configuring your own Linux instance running Graphite, Carbon, Whisper, and the database where we’ll save our graphs and dashboards later. We’ll also cover a variety of housekeeping tasks, including web access controls (authentication and authorization), fixing permissions for the storage and logging directories, and, finally, testing that everything works as expected.
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Note that you should be able to run all of the Graphite components on any modern UNIX or UNIX-like system, including Linux, Solaris, and the family of BSD operating systems. We only cover Linux since it is the clear leader in terms of numbers of Graphite installations, and to keep this chapter from becoming even more unwieldy than it already is.
If you’re the kind of person who prefers to learn by diving in with both feet, I have good news for you. The Synthesize project was designed to help users quickly and painlessly launch a Graphite instance. We’ll get ...
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