installing graphite-web with pip and running under uwsgi

graphite_pip_uwsgi_recipe.sh

# graphite-web install is hardcoded in setup.cfg to /opt/graphite
sudo mkdir /opt/graphite
sudo chown brad.users /opt/graphite

# run under python2.7 virtualenv
virtualenv --python=python2.7 ~/ve/graphite
source ~/ve/graphite/bin/activate

# install the necessary python packages (simplejson is for flot graphs)
pip install graphite-web carbon whisper django django-tagging uwsgi simplejson

# use example configurations
cp /opt/graphite/conf/carbon.conf.example /opt/graphite/conf/carbon.conf
cp /opt/graphite/conf/storage-schemas.conf.example /opt/graphite/conf/storage-schemas.conf


# feed carbon 1000 random data points at 90 second intervals
perl -e '$ts = time(); for (1..1000) { printf "foo.bar %d %d\n", int(rand(10000)), $ts - 90 * $_ }' \
  | nc -c localhost 2003

# make sure the database gets created
(cd /opt/graphite/webapp/graphite; python manage.py syncdb)

# start graphite-web under uwsgi using built-in http server on port 8085
$HOME/ve/graphite/bin/uwsgi --http localhost:8085 --master --processes 4 --home $HOME/ve/graphite --pythonpath /opt/graphite/webapp/graphite --wsgi-file=/opt/graphite/conf/graphite.wsgi.example

# view a graph of the random data
firefox http://localhost:8085/render/?width=800&height=600&target=foo.bar