Once the prerequisites are installed, we need to install all of the pieces Graphite needs in order to function. These modules include Graphite-web for web-based graph construction, carbon for aggregating inputs, and whisper to store raw graph data.
The next step isn't strictly necessary, but each Graphite installation maintains a unique secret series of characters. We recommend that you generate one and save it in the SECRET_KEY variable of the local_settings.py file. When it is time to secure the Graphite installation, having a secret key will make it easier. We also set DEBUG to True here because current versions of Django will not serve static files (JavaScript, images, and so on.) from the development server we're using ...
